Thank you NetWallah, that is what I was looking for

I have put your code in but I'm not getting a match with the regular expression (it's saying uninitialized value in pattern match m//)... it's probably because the data I had for you to look at is not exact. I am at work right now, so let me post the exact data below...

----DATA----
Oct 17 10:35:35 esw110tf222 ssg5-serial: NetScreen device id=000123456
+78 [Root]system-alert-000008: IP Spoofing! From 255.255.255.255 to 0.
+0.0.0, proto 1 (zone Untrust int ethernet0/4). Occurred 1 times. (201
+2-1017 10:35:35)

Oct 17 10:35:35 esw110tf222 ssg5-serial: NetScreen device id=000123456
+78 [Root]system-alert-000008: IP Spoofing! From 255.255.255.255 to 0.
+0.0.0, proto 1 (zone Untrust int ethernet0/4). Occurred 1 times. (201
+2-1017 10:35:35)

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I tried my own regex:

m/\](.*)\(20/;

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But it still throws the same error...

I think this is really close now... can you help fix it for that data?

In reply to Re^2: Counting keys in a hash by cspctec
in thread Counting keys in a hash by cspctec

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