use strict; use warnings; #use diagnostics; my $log_line = '67.60.185.31 - - [14/Jan/2008:02:25:54 -0800] "GET /display.cgi?2643943|3334115 HTTP/1.1" 200 55 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.6 (KHTML, like Gecko)" "67.60.185.31"'; my $log_pattern = q{(.*) \- \- \[(.*)\] \"(.*) (.*)\?(.*) HTTP\/(.*)\" ([0-9]*) ([0-9]*) \"(.*)\" \"(.*)\" \"(.*)\"}; my @fields = ( $log_line =~ /$log_pattern/ ); print "$_\n" for @fields; __END__ 67.60.185.31 14/Jan/2008:02:25:54 -0800 GET /display.cgi 2643943|3334115 1.1 200 55 - Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) 67.60.185.31