Here's a log from an application and i wanted to be able to parse anything after "INFO -" till the date in next line as one varibale. You can see each line is similar till "INFO -" then the last portion is all over the place.

2012-09-14 16:55:22,498 ACTIVE ExecuteThread: '8' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)' (com.this.perl.seems.kinda.Cool:di sconnectCORBA:154) INFO - Well this is just one line text

2012-09-14 16:55:22,498 ACTIVE ExecuteThread: '8' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)' (com.this.perl.seems.kinda.Cool:di sconnectCORBA:154) INFO - Well this is just multiple line text

With formats Like this

***** Some other text **** then some more text on another line

2012-09-14 16:55:22,498 ACTIVE ExecuteThread: '8' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)' (com.this.perl.seems.kinda.Cool:di sconnectCORBA:154) INFO - Well once again this is part starts with bracket and blah blah blah

Well i tried to write this program where I was able to exactly match upto "INFO -" but the last variable matches single line and not multiple lines. I tried added \ms but that didn't help. Can we not say match everything from here on out till you match my first varible of date in next line ? Basically ask the last varible to match everything in the line till it sees next date.Any help in right direction would be much appreciated. 

while ( $line = <> )
        {
                if ($line =~ m/^(\[\d\d\d\d[-]\d\d[-]\d\d \d\d[:]\d\d[
+:]\d\d[,]\d\d\d\]) (\[\S+\]) (\S+) (\'\d\d?\d?\') (\S+ \S+) (\'.*\') 
+(\(.*\))  (\S+) ([
-]) (.*)/)
                        {
                        print $1;
                        print $2;
                        print $3;
                        print $4;
                        print $5;
                        print $6;
                        print $7;
                        print "$8 ";
                        print "$9 ";
                        print "$10 \n";

                        }

        }

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In reply to Can't seem to match from one varibale to next one. by Ben328

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