I have the following piece of code from a program:
open(RPT,">$DIR/$RPT")||die"Can't open $RPT: $!\n";
print RPT "Report Date: $month/$day/$year\n";
print RPT "$RPT\n";
print RPT "============================\n";
my($key,$msg);
foreach $key(keys %hash){
   foreach $msg(@Messages){
     if($hash{$key}{'error_message'}=~/$msg/ and $hash{$key}{'date'}=~
+$DATE){
        print RPT "$hash{$key}{'packet_id'}\t\t$hash{$key}{'origin'}\n
+";
        print RPT "$hash{$key}{'date'}\t$hash{$key}{'qualifier'}\n";
        print RPT "$hash{$key}{'time'}\t$hash{$key}{'terminal_id'}\n";
        print RPT "$hash{$key}{'device_id'}\t\t$hash{$key}{'applicatio
+n_id'}\n";
        print RPT "$hash{$key}{'catalog_code'}\t\t$hash{$key}{'functio
+n_id'}\n";
        print RPT "$hash{$key}{'status'}\t\t$hash{$key}{'severity'}\n"
+;
        print RPT "$hash{$key}{'error_message'}\n";
        print RPT "===================================================
+=\n";
     }## END OF IF STATEMENT
   }## END OF INNER FOREACH STATEMENT
}## END OF OUTER FOREACH STATEMENT
close RPT;

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Is there any way I could improve the overall speed of this? I have already sped up the overall program by a minute, just from pre-compiling the regular expressions, but I would like to clean this section up as well. As usual, any ideas/suggestions are appreciated.

TStanley
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