Good morning monks! I'm hoping that posting my issue here someone will be able to point me in the right direction.

I believe myself to be a fairly competent bash coder, and I'm starting to take on perl as my new language (and I'm loving it so far). I am having trouble with a piece of code that I'm working with, and I was hoping to find someone that could point me in the right direction.

my $hours;

open( SMRT, "/root/perk/tmpfile" );
while( <SMRT> ){
        chomp ();
        if (/Power_On_Hours(.*)/i) { $hours = $1 ; }
        @time = split(' ',$hours);
        print "Power on hours = $time[7]\n";
}
close(SMRT);

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tmpfile is a smartctl output. The line I'm trying to capture is:

9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 916

My thinking about it, is that I should put that line into a variable, than split it with spaces into an array and call the last line by $time[7], which should return "916".

However when I'm running it, it's doing something crazy:

Power on hours =
--snipped, above repeats 20 times--
Power on hours = 916
--snipped, above repeats 20 times--

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I would greatly appreciate the wisdom from anyone who can point me in the direction I need to go.

In reply to Pulling lines from file, noob style by jperkins

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