#!c:/perl/bin/perl.exe -w use strict; use diagnostics; open OUTPUT,"<","c:\/Perl\/Project\/Files\/SMDR.log.prs.20090220_084230.prd" or die "Couldn't open smdr file; $!\n"; my @lines = ; #loop through the array values and print each foreach my $lines (@lines) { open (OUTFILE, ">>c:\/perl\/project\/archive.txt"); print OUTFILE "$lines"; #here's where I'd like to filter out any lines containing "/" a slash character close OUTFILE; }