OK!

But now I have a new problem, I think that may work, but there is a timestamp in each line, so I need so split before you process the line in the file. The split needs to be a regular expression split, of ':01-60 ' so that is will be split with ':' and any number 01 - 60 followed by a space, together:

':34 ' or ':21 ' or ':57 ' would all work, this is the seconds in the timestamp of course. that should leave us with an array with [0] (the trash) and 1 (the goodies)

I tried inserting somehting like:
# create variables:
#   $pattern - pattern for regular expression
#   %parsed  - hash, keys are lines containing pattern,
#              values are counter of times seen
#   $i       - counter of total lines matching pattern

my $pattern = 'fwa';
my (%parsed, $i);

while(<$FILE>){
    # read line from filehandle, assign to special variable $_
    if(/$pattern/i && $i++)
    {
        chomp $_;        # remove newline


        @new=split(/:[01-60] /,$_);
        $_=$new[1];


        $parsed{ $_ }++; # use line as hash 
        ect ect ect.......

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But that didn't work, and I am unsure of both the regex, and ties with your code. Any more help would be much appriciated.

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