Thanks, I did the double slashes since I am using a unc path and did it the way I learned like 9 years ago in a PERL class.

I got the code to remove the unwanted lines but it is not elegant, but I wanted to post it for more comments and advice on how to improve.

I did try a switch statement but could not get it to work so just built the ugly if statement

Thanks again for the help and direction


#!perl
#use strict;
use Text::CSV_XS;
use warnings;
use FileHandle;
# declarations
    my($log_file_path)="\\\\dt00mx84\\LogArchive\\www.ksdot.org\\dt00m
+h77\\";
    my($robot_file)="\\\\dt00mx84\\LogArchive\\Webrobots.txt";
    my($second, $minute, $hour, $dayOfMonth, $month, $yearOffset, $day
+OfWeek, $dayOfYear, $daylightSavings) = localtime();
    my$x="ex";
    my($extension)=".log";
    my($year)=1900+$yearOffset;
    my($month_new)=1+$month;
    my $day=$dayOfMonth-1;
    my @logmessages;
# build filename format
# this is how log files are named using the yy/mm/dd formatex040101.lo
+g
    if (length($month_new)< 2) {
        $month_new="0".$month_new
        };
    if (length($dayOfMonth)< 2) {
        $dayOfMonth="0".$dayOfMonth
        };
# build input file name and file path to read from
    my($filename)=$x.substr($year,2).$month_new.$day;
    my($log_file)=$log_file_path.$filename.$extension;
# build output file name and path to write file
    my($file_name)=substr($year,2).$month_new.$day;
    my($out_file)=$log_file_path.$file_name.$extension;
# Declare the FileHandles and open the input and output files
    my $fh= new FileHandle;
    open(LOG, "<$log_file") or die "Could not open file";
        @logmessages=<LOG>;
    close(LOG);
    my $outfile= new FileHandle;
    open(OUTFILE, ">$out_file") or die "Could not open file";
    foreach $LogLine (@logmessages){
        if(($LogLine!~/Slurp/) && ($LogLine!~/Jeeves/)&&($LogLine!~/Go
+oglebot/)&&($LogLine!~/FunWebProducts/)&&($LogLine!~/msnbot.htm/)&&($
+LogLine!~/PeoplePal/)&&($LogLine!~/ventura5/)&&($LogLine!~/Speedy/)&&
+($LogLine!~/GovDelivery/)&&($LogLine !~ /gif/)&&($LogLine !~ /jpg/)&&
+($LogLine !~ /ico/)&&($LogLine !~ /css/)&&($LogLine !~ /js/)&&($LogLi
+ne !~ /archive/)&&($LogLine !~ /CazoodleBot/)&&($LogLine !~ /WebTrend
+s/)&&($LogLine !~ /ShopWiki/)&&($LogLine !~ /Ultraseek/)&&($LogLine !
+~ /msrbot/)&&($LogLine !~ /Moskow/)&&($LogLine !~ /Gigabot/)) {
            print OUTFILE $LogLine;
            }
    }

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in thread Deleting a matching string in an array by Shamaeso

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