You are correct,… I understand it’s messy, so I decided to abandon this approach in favor of the approach below:

#! c:/perl/bin/perl.exe
#
#
$|++;
AUTOLOAD;

use strict;
use warnings 'all';

my $DataRec= {};

if (open(DATA,"c:\\logfile.txt"))
{
   my ($pc_name, $Rec, $hash, $key, $Port, $PortDesc);
   print "\nExtracting data from c:\\logfile.txt\n\n";
   while (<DATA>)
   {
      if (/^port-channel (\d+)$/)
      {
         $pc_name = $1;
      }
      elsif (m|(fc\d+/\d+)\s+\[(\w+)\]|) 
      {
         $Rec->{$pc_name}->{$1} = $2;
      }
      elsif (/^interface port-channel (\d+)$/)
      {
         $key = $1;
      }
      elsif (/switchport description To (\w+) ([\d+\.]+)/)
      {
         $hash->{$key}->{$1} = $2;
      }
      #### Now I have a problem with the below #####
      elsif (/^interface (fc\d+\/\d+)$/)
      {
         $Port = $1;
      }
      elsif (/\s+switchport description (.+)$/)
      {
         $PortDesc->{$Port} = $2 if ($2 ne "");
      }
      #####################################
    } 
     
     for my $Port (keys %{$PortDesc})
     {
         print "$Port : $PortDesc->{$Port}\n"; # no output for $PortDe
+sc->{$Port}!!!
      }
      
       
   for my $Channel (keys %{$Rec})
   {
      for my $Port (keys %{$Rec->{$Channel}})
      {
         for my $Match (keys %{$hash})      
         {
            next unless ($Channel == $Match);
            $DataRec->{ISL}->{$Port}->{$_} = $hash->{$Match}->{$_} for
+ (keys %{$hash->{$Match}});          
         }
      }
   }   
   &Create_Excel($DataRec);
   print "\n-------------------------\n"; 
Close DATA;             
}
else
{
   warn "$!\n";
}
sub Create_Excel
{
   
   my ($Record) = @_;
   print "\nISL Information \n";
   for my $Port (keys %{$Record->{ISL}})
   {
      print "$Port : ";
      for my $Name (keys %{$Record->{ISL}->{$Port}})
      {
         print "$Name : $Record->{ISL}->{$Port}->{$Name}\n";
      }
   }
   
}
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It seems that my problem is that I can't get all the data that I need unless I close DATA and oopen it again! Surely I can get all that I need from the first pass through...Righht!...Thnaks

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