Hi, I am trying to write a script that will open up a log, grab some strings in it, and print out a new log containing those strings. I want it to grab a whole string that starts with "_ and ends with ". Here's what I have so far: 
use strict;
use warnings;

my $out = "Backup/backup.txt";
my $logfile="log.txt";
my $MAL = "\"_";
my $endstring = "\"";

my $logfile_new;

open LOG, "<", $logfile or die "Cannot open $logfile for read :$!";
open OUT, ">$out" or die "Cannot open $out for write :$!";

while ( <LOG> ) {
  if ( $_ =~ /$MAL/i ) {
# Grab all strings that contain this regex
# Save them all in $out
  }
}

print OUT "$out";

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Any help is much appreciated!

In reply to script to grab string from log and print them in a different log by perl_geoff

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