Thanks much for the help
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#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $goodFILE = "/logs/goodstring.txt";
my $badFILE = "/logs/badstring.txt";
my $logFILE = "/logs/processing/uexpress/access.20000622";
open(GOOD , ">$goodFILE") || die "cannot create $goodFILE : !$\n";
open(BAD , ">$badFILE") || die "cannot create $badFILE : !$\n";
open(FILE, "$logFILE");
while (<FILE>)
{
if ( /^(\S+) (\S+) (\S+) \[(
^:+):(\d+:\d+:\d+) (\S+)\] "(\S+) (\S+) (\S+)" (\S+) (\S+) "(.*?)" "(.*?)"$/)
{
my ($client,$identuser,$authuser,$date,$time,$tz,$method,$url,$protocol,$status,$bytes,$refer,$platform) = ($1,$2,$3
,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10,$11,$12,$13);
print GOOD "client : $client\n";
print GOOD "userid : $identuser\n";
print GOOD "authuser : $authuser\n";
print GOOD "date : $date\n";
print GOOD "time : $time\n";
print GOOD "time zone : $tz\n";
print GOOD "method : $method\n";
print GOOD "URL : $url\n";
print GOOD "protocol : $protocol\n";
print GOOD "status : $status\n";
print GOOD "bytes : $bytes\n";