first off, can you post some data, so we know what you're reading in?

looking at your script, there are a few things that could be improved upon.
~you're using warnings twice, with perl -w, and use warnings. you don't need both.
~why is use strict commented out?
~this is confusing~

#Look only at the summary lines where $_ == 560
while (defined ($_ = <FILE>)) {
    next unless ($_ =~ /560/);  #we only want the files with 560
    $_ =~ s/`/,/g;      #this is here to get the user name because ' i
+s after name
    @x=split(/,/);
    if (!($x[16] =~ /Primary User Name:    CISERFS1/)) {  #dont want t
+he details from the sytem

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probably it's better to split first, then search on the filename field, otherwise you may run into a year 2560 bug ;)
something like 
#Look only at the summary lines where $x[???] contains '560'
while (<FILE>) {
    @x=split /,|`/;
    next unless ($x[???] =~ /560/);  #we only want the files with 560
    unless($x[16] =~ /Primary User Name:    CISERFS1/) {  #dont want t
+he details from the sytem

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~also, you are assigning temporary variables, but i don't see a real need, if you're only printing them.
try print OUTPUT "$x[1] $x[2] $x[12] $x[16] \n";

~Particle

In reply to Re: parse a log file by particle
in thread parse a log file by Anonymous Monk

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