Hi Monks, I put this out earlier, but how would you gather a job name as shown below that is not called 'New Job'? Basically, I want to capture any type of name that I give a job i.e. Testing01, mymusic, myimages2 etc. Could I use a character class here? As always, thanks for your time and I welcome your wisdom. 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;

my ($job);

while(<DATA>){                     
  
  chomp;
    
  next unless  /Synchronizing started|Synchronizing finished|Summary/;
  
  my $summary;
  $summary++ if /Summary/;
  
  my $this_job;
  if (($this_job) = $_ =~ /"New Job (\d+)"$/){
    $job = $this_job;
  }
  
  print qq{job: $job } if $summary;
  print qq{$_\n};
  
};

__DATA__
[4/14/2008 4:44 PM] Analyzing started, job: "New Job 1"
[4/14/2008 4:45 PM] Synchronizing started, job: "New Job 1"
[4/14/2008 4:45 PM] Analyzing finished, job: "New Job 1"
[4/14/2008 4:45 PM] Synchronizing finished, job: "New Job 1"
[4/14/2008 4:45 PM] Summary: Files processed: 6,554; Files copied: 1;

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