My goal is to grab certain string of chars from the output of print on line 23,  which would be anything after = and before , Whether I use a regexp or a hash/value pair I don't care, as long as it works! thank you. :) 
__DATA__

msgagt=ESM_WMB_AIX,sec_id=Sec
_id,severity=Low,node=test,msgnode=qwmbap01.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.net,utc=2007
+-04-26 18:01:59.472+00:00,om=UID=3a7affd6-f420-11db-80b1-000000000000
+,AlertCod
e=AEM001,AlertType=AEM-default,AppName=AEM-CommonService2,Message=5004
+:An error has been reported by the BIPXML4C component.:XML

__CODE__

1 use strict;
2 use warnings;
3 #use diagnostics;
4 use Data::Dumper;
5
6 my $ovo    = qq(/home/mikej/out);
7 my $msgagt = qr/(?:\w+\=\w+)/;  #|(?:\w+=\{.*?\}))/;
8 my ($key,$value);
9 my (%HoA,@HoA);
10
11 open (my $out, "+<", $ovo) or die "file '$ovo' was not opened $!";
12
13 while (<$out>) {
14   s/^\s+|\s+$//g;  ## rid of newlines at begin and end
15   chomp;
16   next unless length $_;  ## skip blanks
17   s/^'|'\w+|'.*?$//;      ## rid of ticks and ticks plus metachars 
+\w
18   s/\x7b|\x7d//g;         ## rid of { and }
19   ($key,$value) = (split /=/, $_, 0);
20   #print "KEY:\t",$key,"\n";
21   #print "VALUE:\t",$value,"\n";
22   #push @{$HoA{$key}}, $value if (/$msgagt/g);
23   print "$_\n" if (/$msgagt/g);
24 }

25 #for my $i (sort keys %HoA) {
26 #   print "$i -- @{ $HoA{$i} }\n";
27 #}

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As another idea, what about setting 
local $/ = ',';

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In reply to key value pair or simply a regexp by mikejones

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