thanks also notice i needed to direct the print to the output_fh. The code still does not work though. This is printing to the output file

CAM::PDF::Node=HASH(0x28fa004)
CAM::PDF::Node=HASH(0x28af0f4)
CAM::PDF::Node=HASH(0x28f9a9c)

updated code:

#!perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CAM::PDF;

my $output_file = 'test.txt';

my $filename = "view.pdf";
my @pdfStrings = ( qr/Source IP:.*(\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+)/, qr/Request URI: 
+(.*)/, qr/HOST: (.*)/ );


open(my $output_fh, '>', $output_file)
    or die "Failed to open $output_file - $!";


foreach my $pdfString (@pdfStrings) {    

my $doc = CAM::PDF->new($filename) || die "Unable to open $filename  -
+ $!"; 
my $ascii = CAM::PDF->parseAny($pdfString);

print {$output_fh} $ascii, "\n";
}

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In reply to Re^2: parsing a pdf with CAM::PDF by diamondsandperls
in thread parsing a pdf with CAM::PDF by diamondsandperls

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