Use the "$_" scalar to work with individual lines inside the while loop. You can do something like this until you get comfortable with "$_"

next if (m/^$/);
last if (m/^Press.*/)       
my $line = $_; 
#grab bits here instead of using awk

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I'd also suggest looking at split to put the data into variables: 
($rw,$io_s_cur,$io_s_avg,$io_s_max,$kb_s_cur,$kb_s_avg,$kb_s_max,$svt_
+ms_cur,$svt_ms_avg,$iosz_cur,$iosz_avg,$qlen) = split(/\s+/, $line, 1
+3);

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The last bit is the first 3 lines in this output; unless you need them for something I'd use the "last if" in the first code block above as a starting point; change last to next and modify the match m//

In reply to Re^3: 3par data acquistion by callmeavis
in thread 3par data acquistion by bluethundr

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