Thanks Zaxo but that would be ok if I only needed unit and port vlaue.. but I need others from the string as well.. but those are always there so it was no prob (one int and 2 hex values)... here is the script I got now ... and it works fine: 
open ERASER,">output.txt";
close ERASER;

open ERRORLOG, "<error.txt" or die "Can't read file error: $!\n";
open OUTPUT,">>output.txt" or die "Can't read file $!\n";


while( my $line = <ERRORLOG> )
{
        chomp $line;
        @line=split " ",$line;

        if ($line[0]=~ /^c/)
        {
                $line =~/(c([0-9]+)).*(0x[A-Fa-f0-9]+).*(0x[A-Fa-f0-9]
++)/;
                my $conn = $2;
                my @error = ($3, $4);
                my $value1= hex $error[0];
                my $value2= hex $error[1];

                my $unit = '';
                if ($line =~/(unit=([0-9]+))/)
                {
                        $unit= $2;
                };

                my $port = '';
                if ($line =~/(port=([0-9]+))/)
                {
                        $port= $2;
                };

                print OUTPUT "Conn: $conn, Value1: $value1,Value2:  $v
+alue2, Unit: $unit,Port1:  $po
rt,Stat: $line[6]\n";

        }
}

close ERRORLOG;
close OUTPUT;

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