use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dump qw"pp"; use English; my %HoA; my @AoA; while () { if (my ($id,$fromto)=/: (\w+): ((?:from|to)=<.*?>),/ ){ $HoA{$id}=[$PREMATCH,$fromto,$POSTMATCH]; @AoA[$.]=[$PREMATCH,$id,$fromto,$POSTMATCH]; }else { warn "Couldn't parse <<<$_>>> at line $."; } } pp(\%HoA); pp(\@AoA); __DATA__ Dec 8 08:49:21 b.mx.sonic.net sm-mta18242: jB8GnCuK018242: from=, size=10731, class="0", nrcpts=2, msgid=, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mwest.oreilly.com 209.204.146.24 Dec 8 08:49:21 b.mx.sonic.net sm-mta18528: jB8GnCuK018242: to=,, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=160731, relay=lds.sonic.net. 208.201.249.231, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (jB8GnLpC004736 Message accepted for delivery)