Two things:

1. Please preview your question before you post it. The contents of your log file would be a lot easier to read if it was in a <pre> ... </pre> block. Update: Thanks for reformatting it.

2. What information do you want to extract from the log file? We need to know this in order to help you. Update: Okay, now I see what you want to parse.

Here's one way of doing it: 

my $r;
while (<>) {
  if (/^Current software package status is: *(.*)/) {
    $r->{package_status} = $1;
  } elsif (/^(WORKSTATION\d+):/) {
    $r->{workstation} = $1;
    $r->{workstation_line} = $.
  } elsif (/^(User program exit code: .*)/) {
    $r->{exit_message} = $1;
    $r->{exit_line} = $.
    # process $r
    if ($r->{package_status} eq "IC--E") {
      print "$r->{workstation}(line $r->{workstation_line}) $r->{exit_
+message}(line $r->{exit_line}) 
    }
    $r = {}; # clear variables for next record
  }
}

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This assume that package status line precedes workstation line which precedes the exit message line.

In reply to Re: Parsing a Log file by pc88mxer
in thread Parsing a Log file by nashkab

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