The log files look like this:

Date Time <stuff> 3344 123456789
Date Time could be good
Date Time <otherstuff> 4321
Date Time <sohappy> this is really great

This keeps repeating for several hundreds of MB of data in the file.

Assuming each line of the filehandle is $_ and "parsing" that into @line, and then trying to test $line(2) to see if it is "<stuff>" and print that...

Here is the code that doesn't work... 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use feature ':5.10';
use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;

open (DATA, 'text.log') or die print $!;
binmode DATA #I am trying everything I can
while (<DATA>)
{
     @line = split(/ /,$_);
     $test = $line[2];
     if ($test == '<stuff>')
     {
     say "$test\n";
     }
}
close DATA;

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#end script. I can edit this script and have it print every incoming line of text with a print $_ But to try and operate on each line seems to be failing. Thanks Monks!

In reply to String evaluation of log files by Wes_M

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