OK having taken this on board , I decide to add a line number count so I don't go processing the same bit of the file every time this utility is run. e.g. 

my $linenum = 1;
my $lastline = 200;
my %user_login;
while (my $line = <errlog>) {
  chomp $line;
  next unless ($linenum = $lastline);
  next unless ($line =~ /Login succeeded/);
  my ($date,$time,$username)=(split(' ',$line))[0,1,6];
  $user_login{$username}="$date $time";
  ++linenum;
}

for my $record(sort keys %user_login) {
  print "$record logged in at $user_login{$record}\n";
}

print "line number is $linenum\n";

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This doesn't work though since $linenum is still set to 1 at the print above. How can I use the linenum variable outside the while loop to achieve this ?

In reply to Re^2: array processing by Anonymous Monk
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