Please remember I am new to Perl. I am trying to understand your code examples but have not been able to get it to work in any way. I did go through and looked up the code to understand it but I am missing somthing. I dont want every white space to seperate just the first few then the error message. One of the lines doesnt have a seperate severity like INFORMATION but an info: in the line. So the spot for info: I would be able to pull out error: if it was an error. I am still trying to use $1 $2 $3 to understand and find the positions to place where I want them but unsuccessful. I do understand the higher numbers would pull nothing but are there because I am trying to break it up and see what is there as I go to see if I missed one. Also $0 printed the file location which is a good separator when going through the results.

Ok maybe this will help explain what I am trying to do. Here is the data and the desired output for both line formats leaving out unnecessary info.

__data__
Mon Feb 20 09:31:25 2017 [INFORMATION] [AGENTEXEC 26816] Detected duri
+ng program initialization: Version: 7.2.0160.0297  Win64
2017-02-20T09:30:53.177000    20848[30892]    0000000000000000    [DM_
+MQ_I_DAEMON_START]info:  "Message queue daemon (tid : 27944, session 
+0102b20d80000456) is started sucessfully."

[download]
Server Name 2017-02-20 09:30:53 info: DM_MQ_I_DAEMON_START info: "Message queue daemon (tid : 27944, session 0102b20d80000456) is started sucessfully."
Server Name 2017-02-20 09:31:25 INFORMATION Detected during program initialization: Version: 7.2.0160.0297 Win64

I do appreciate your time for helping and explaining this to me.

In reply to Re^4: DateTime::Format::Flexible; for Log Parse with multiple formatted lines by TCLion
in thread DateTime::Format::Flexible; for Log Parse with multiple formatted lines by TCLion

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