Suggestions:

Provide more information with $! when open fails (you'll apreciate it when it happens).
open (LOGFILE, "< $logfile") or die ("Could not open $logfile: $!");
You're kind of care free when mixing $thiscust with record fields, hash keys and file handles. Maybe something more like this:
$thiscust = (split /\//, $fields[4])[1]; if ( ! $cust{$thiscust} ) { print "customer $thiscust\n"; $cust{$thiscust} = $thiscust; open (my $fh, ">> ${prefix}${thiscust}${suffix}") or die ("Cannot open ${prefix}${thiscust}${suffix}: $!"); $cust{$thiscust} = $fh; } my $fh = $cust{$thiscust}; print $fh $_;

In reply to Re: Log File Parsing using "split" by ruzam
in thread Log File Parsing using "split" by jstout13

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