Hi monks,

I piece together the following codes thanks to the gracious time and effort of fellow monks in this forum.

the code works but it generated a zero byte output file without the results of records having the string 'two' 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use DateTime::Format::Strptime;
my $Strp = new DateTime::Format::Strptime(pattern     => '%Y-%b-%d %T'
+,);
my $infile = 'logfile-2008-01-11.log';
my $outfile = 'report-2008-01-11.txt';
my($fh_out, $fh);
my %lookup;
my $channel = 'two';
my $time_delta = 3600;  # seconds = 1 hour
open($fh_out, '>', $outfile) or die "Could not open outfile: $!";
open($fh, '<', $infile) or die "Could not open logfile: $!";
while (<$fh>) {
    next unless /$channel/;
#    $_ =~ m/^(.*) UTC.*refs = (\d+)$/;
#    my $dt = $Strp->parse_datetime("$1");
#    my $timestamp = $dt ->epoch();
#    my $refs = "$2";
my ($dt, $timestamp, $refs);
   if ( m/^(.*) UTC.*refs = (\d+)$/ ){
      # right here, just after the match, is the only
      # place it's safe to use $1 and $2 - tuck them away:
      my $t = $1;
      $refs = $2;
      $dt = $Strp->parse_datetime($t);
      $timestamp = $dt ->epoch();
   }
   else {
      warn "No match: $_  \n";
      next;
   }
    if ( defined($lookup{$refs}) && $lookup{$refs} + $time_delta <= $t
+imestamp ) {
        print $fh_out "REFS $refs: occurrences at " . $lookup{$refs} .
+ "and $timestamp \n";
        print "REFS $refs: occurrences at " . $lookup{$refs} . " and $
+timestamp \n";
    }
    $lookup{$refs} = $timestamp;
}
close $fh_out;
#close $fh;

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The input file, logfile-2008-01-11.log 

2007-Jan-11 00:00:00 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = one, ref = com,
+ id = 595143009
2007-Jan-07 00:00:01 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = two, ref = com,
+ id = 133714761
2007-Jan-11 00:00:01 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = one, ref = com,
+ id = 595131400
2007-Jan-11 00:00:02 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = two, ref = com,
+ id = 660868931
2007-Jan-11 00:00:02 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = two, ref = com,
+ id = 595191883
2007-Jan-11 00:00:03 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = one, ref = com,
+ id = 098533326
2007-Jan-11 00:00:03 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = three, ref = co
+m, id = 659718092
2007-Jan-11 00:00:04 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = three, ref = co
+m, id = 006456768
2007-Jan-11 00:00:05 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = one, ref = com,
+ id = 133714761

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The desired output file, report-2008-01-11.txt

If the record has more than 1 repetition, the output file shall have the character '1' added to the last position 

2007-Jan-11 00:00:05 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = one, ref = com,
+ id = 133714761 1

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** Updated ** as requested

In reply to output the read result into a log file by tuakilan

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