Hi guys,
My friend told me that i can find good answers here :)

Im not sure if this question if an easy one or not. here goes:

I want to make a pattern using the qr// function but i dont know how.

here is an example of the log file i want to work with: 

081407 start up server
081407 -- fatal error in procedure 1
081407 -- disconnected user
081407 -- logging started
081407 -- not enough space

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all i can come up is qr/--/ which will get all occurrences of "--" but i also want to ignore some lines with "--" like the lines "081407 -- logging started" and "081407 -- disconnected user" but i also want to get the last line which is "081407 -- not enough space" so in short i want to get: 

081407 -- fatal error in procedure 1
081407 -- not enough space

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and ignore: 
081407 -- disconnected user
081407 -- logging started

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does it make sense? im still getting used with perl. sorry

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