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while(<DATA>){
  print "$1$/" if /\((E\d+)/;
}

__DATA__
ID:8F03F770.3E6A0B05.00000200.5E0263D7, 
(E00123),       
(E00540),       
(E00216),       
(E00313),       
(E00486),       
(E00112),       
(E00822),       
(E00792),       
(E00774),       
(E00623),       
(E00022),       
(E00188),       
(E00017),       
(E00075),       
(E00055),       
ID:500460E9.BB25AD46.00000200.3E044511,

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Should do the trick...assuming all your desired values match E then a number of digits....

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Re^2: deletion of one line of a particula pattern
by drock (Beadle) on Aug 23, 2004 at 20:06 UTC
    awesome... I wish I was better at reg exps. my only complaint is the output looks like: 
    (E1234),     E1234
(E4545),     E4545

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    instead of just 
    Exxxx
Exxxx
Exxxx

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      That's odd... can you provide the snippet of code that's producing that output?
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        : ) 
        use strict;
use diagnostics;

my $log = qq(/usr/local/log/lvimg_Ldrive_tapes.log);
my $out = qq(/usr/local/log/output);

open (F, "$log") || die "could not open file:$!";
open (F2, ">$out") || die "could not open file:$!";

 sub mytime {

        my ($month,$day,$year,$hours,$min) = (localtime)[4,3,5,2,1];
        sprintf ("%02d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d\n", $month+1,$day,($year % 
+100),$hours,$min);
        }

        my $tm = &mytime;
        print F2 "$tm\n";

        while (<F>) {

                #if ($_ =~ /(E0+)/ ) {
                    local $, = "\t";
                    print F2 +(split)[3], "$1$/" if /\((E\d+)/;
                #}
        }

close (F);
close (F2);

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