A few things with that... while (<$FILE>) {
would assume you had a variable that is a glob of a filehandle. I'm not sure why you'd want to do that, just a caveat.

elif should be elsif

and your code also assumes both a single line read (in the /^\d/ case) and a multi-line read (in the /^\s+ID/ case), unless I'm reading that incorrectly.

Here's what I came up with:
use Data::Dumper; use strict; my $hash = {}; my @files = ( "LOG1", "LOG2", "LOG3" ); foreach my $file ( @files ) { open FILE, "<", $file or die "Unable to open $file\n$!\n"; my ( $date, $id, $timestamp ) = qw( Unknown "" "" ); while (<FILE>) { chomp; if (/^\d/){ $date = $_; } elsif (/^\s+ID\s*=\s*(.*)$/) { $id = $1; } elsif ( /^\s+TIMESTAMP\s*=\s*(.*)$/ ) { $timestamp = $1; } elsif ( /^\s+COUNT_\d+\s*=\s*(.*)$/ ) { $hash->{$date}->{$id}->{$timestamp} += $1; } } } print Dumper($hash), "\n";
which would give you
$VAR1 = { '20090619' => { '4' => { '1244127600' => '20' }, '1' => { '1244127600' => '20' }, '3' => { '1244127600' => '10' }, '0' => { '1244127600' => '20' }, '2' => { '1244127600' => '10' } } };
Assumptions are that the log files are all in the order specified, the actual COUNT_X values are immaterial, etc.

In reply to Re^2: Process Log Files - Join Log entry pairs by Transient
in thread Process Log Files - Join Log entry pairs by gulden

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