My guess? Because the commas are each part of another element of @L1, because they had "notice", "[", "mpmstats:", or "\t" inbetween them.

Try this fix:

# ...
if ( ($line =~ /notice/) && ($line =~ /rdy/) )

    # Spaces to commas
    $line =~ s/ /,/g;
    
    # Get rid of "notice", "[", "mpmstats:", and tabs inside the line.
    $line =~ s/notice|\[|mpmstats:|\t//g;

    # Change the dreaded Triple Comma into the nice and smooth Single 
+Comma.
    $line =~ s/,,,/,/g;
      # Or even the following if you want to replace all multiple subs
+equent commas by
      # just one:
      # $line =~ s/,,+/,/g;

    # Show me what I've got
    print $line;
}

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See how I wrote your [[] as \[? I think it's more readable that way. Also, regular expression understand \t just fine. There's no need to put it into a character class. And if ( ($line =~ /notice/) && ($line =~ /rdy/) ) { pretty much does the same thing as your two if statements. The inner parens are optional, but I prefer to write it that way.

In reply to Re: Perl substitution not working by muba
in thread Perl substitution not working by Anonymous Monk

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