I'd say you're on the right track. As long as you apply the regex to tear the 'MONKEY' part out of column 3 before you check to see if you've seen it before, you should do just fine.

I would make one pass through each line to build a hash with the value from column 3 as the key pointing to a hashref with num_false (a count) and col1_vals (an arrayref). Then I would go through each key of that hash and run the calculations you want to run. I'm thinking something like this (assuming your lines are in @lines):

my %seen = (); 

foreach my $line (@lines) {
    my @values = split ',', $line;

    my $col1_val = $values[0];
    my $key = $values[2];
    my $true_or_false = $values[7];
    
    $key =~ /^LOGGED IN (\w+) GET/;
    $key = $1;
    
    $seen{$key}->{num_false}++ if $true_or_false eq 'false';
    push @{$seen{$key}->{col1_vals}}, $col1_val;
}

foreach my $key (keys %seen) {
    my $calcd = calculate_stuff($seen{$key}->{col1_vals});
    my $num_false = $seen{$key}->{num_false};

    print <<HERE;
Key:           $key
Calc'd values: $calcd
Num false:     $num_false
HERE
}

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I just took a stab at guessing the proper regex (for example: are spaces allowed?) because I don't know what all your input looks like, but the basic idea holds.

In reply to Re: Hashes, Arrays, and Confusion -- In a bit over my head! by Riales
in thread Hashes, Arrays, and Confusion -- In a bit over my head! by bpthatsme

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