Thank you for that clear explanation! I am trying to get the 2 elements from days_between added on to each key which is my date. So it should look like this after some editing: 

$VAR1 = {
DATE: 01/20/2012 TIME: 21:12:38
' => [
ALERT LEVEL: 6 =  required
',
SOURCE: 4 = power      '
',
SOURCE DETAIL: 4 =     
',
PROBLEM DETAIL: 7 =       '
',
  18,
],
                                                                      
+        
DATE: 02/05/2012 TIME: 07:50:19
' => [
ALERT LEVEL: 2 = 
',
SOURCE: 0 =                '
',
SOURCE DETAIL: 0 = 
',
PROBLEM DETAIL: 0 =           '
'
               2 ]
        };

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notice the 18 and 2 are in the proper key/value pairs based on date subtraction from the log from today.

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