20035pa|02/06/2001|8:30| from here on is about 60 more fields of data
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foreach $item(@timearray){
	
	$searchstring = "$NETID\|$month\/$date\/$year\|$item\|";
		chomp($ECL=`grep "^$searchstring" /PHL/data1/PHL/tmp/ECL_STAT.txt`);
		if ( $ECL == "" ) { push @ECL, "||$item||"; }
		else { push @ECL, $ECL;}
}

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$NETID = the network id, which would correspond to 20035pa in the above example.
$month, $date, $year = would correspond to 02/06/2001 in the above example.
$item = the time, which would be 8:30 above.