While below works, I just don't like the way it looks..
I hate to put 2 similar looking loop back to back(while loop)
Also, I think I could have used grep but the way I wrote below does not work.. is grep better choice and if so, what should it look like?
I am working on converting this simple file into sub routines(why? cause I want to learn to put everything into sub) & will post it soon
use strict; my %total; while (<DATA>) { next if /^#/; next if /^$/; next if ! /(server[1-4])\s+(proc[A-Z]+)\s+(proc\.[0-9]+)\s+[0-9]+\s+ +([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+:?[0-9]{4}?)\s+.+$/; $total{join ("\@", $3,$1)} = "$4"; } my @matches = (); while (<>) { chomp; my $item = $_; #@matches = grep {$_ eq $item} (keys %total); for (keys %total) { push @matches, $_ if $_ eq "$item"; } } for (@matches) { print "$_ ===> $total{$_}\n"; }

In reply to i dont like the way my code looks but work by convenientstore

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