Thanks for your help. I am having trouble nailing that part just right i have tried several zip calls but the code is failing. Thanks for the heads up on Modern::Perl I was curious of what the module was doing.

here is what seems to be the best educated guess

#!perl
use Modern::Perl;
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError) ;

my %files;

my @files = <*.txt *.docx>;

for (@files) {
    next unless /^(\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+)/;
    push @{ $files{$1} }, $_;
}



for my $ip ( keys %files ) {
    my $output = "$ip.zip";
    do { zip => $output, $ip -> $_ }
      for @{ $files{$ip} };
}

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In reply to Re^6: needing to zip files in a series that begin with the same IP address by diamondsandperls
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