If all lines will always have the same number of fields, this will work.

use warnings; use strict; open my $wfh, '>', 'out.csv' or die $!; my $cols = "Protocol, Source IP Address, Source Port, Data Size\n"; print $wfh $cols; while (<DATA>){ if (/ (?:.*?\s){3} # get rid of the time (.*?) # capture the proto ($1) \s+ # skip the next whitespace (.*?):(\d+) # separate IP and port, capture both ($2, $3) .*?\( # skip everything until an opening parens (\d+) # capture bytes ($4) /x ){ print $wfh "$1, $2, $3, $4\n"; } } __DATA__ 2016-04-17 10:12:27:682011 GMT tcp 115.239.248.245:1751 -> 192.168.0.1 +7:8080 52976f9f34d5c286ecf70cac6fba4506 04159c6111bca4f83d7d606a617ac +c5d6a58328d3a631adf3795f66a5d6265f4d1ec99977a5ae8cb2f3133c9503e5086a5 +f2ac92be196bb0c9a9f653f9669495 (312 bytes)

output file:

# cat out.csv Protocol, Source IP Address, Source Port, Data Size tcp, 115.239.248.245, 1751, 312

Update: original regex before expanding and explanation, and before not capturing the word 'bytes'

/(?:.*?\s){3}(.*?)\s+(.*?):(\d+).*?\((.*?)\)$/

In reply to Re: Split string variable of log input and output pieces in text file by stevieb
in thread Split string variable of log input and output pieces in text file by firepro20

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