Hello all!

I am new to perl (started about a week ago) and have already found a new home. Now I have a bit of a problem, that I cannot really figure out how to do it. It feels like it is on the tip of my toungue, but I just can't get it.

I am trying to parse a logfile and create a report from it. I am not sure how to do this. Regexp to match the lines?

Here is a line from the log:
2012-06-01 16:04:46,395 Thread-12796 - Dispatcher thread #1 INFO JMasterProtocol - JMasterProtocol.getMasterPushExitInstance: Asked exit instance for target 'SPF0055R' from dispatcher

First I need to search for the SPF0055R to get the Tread number. Then put the thread number into a variable and then search the file again for the thread number and insert other variables, but only from lines that has the same thread number.

So far all I have is: 
open (FILEPTR,$file) || die "Cant open file";
@trace <FILEPTR>;

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After that I am not sure what to do? Can someone please point me in the right direction?

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