$worksheet->write("E$row", "$4");
print "$device $1, $2, $3, $4\n";
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You should reread the regex documentation. Take particular note of what \d matches and what \w matches. I think then you will see the problem for yourself.

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Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

hi father !

use warnings;
use strict;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;

my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("data.xls");
my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet();

$worksheet->write ("A1", 'Device');
$worksheet->write ("B1", '/var');
$worksheet->write ("C1", '/');
$worksheet->write ("D1", 'interleaved');
$worksheet->write ("E1", 'avm');
$worksheet->write ("F1", 'fre');
$worksheet->write ("G1", 'cs');
$worksheet->write ("H1", 'us');
$worksheet->write ("I1", 'sy');
$worksheet->write ("J1", 'id');
$worksheet->write ("K1", 'Date');



my $row = 2;
my $line = '';
my $device;

open inFile, '<', 'logs.txt' or die "Couldn't open data.txt: $!";

while (! eof inFile)
  {
  $line .= ' ' . <inFile>;
  chomp $line;
  next if ! ($line =~ /logging\sto\s(.*?)\s+/i) and ! eof inFile;

  my $nextDevice = $1;
  if    #($line =~ /(\d+)%\s+\/var\s+(\d+).*?(\d+)%\s+Interleaved\s+.*
+?avm\s+.*?fre\s+.*?cs\s+.*?us\s+.*?sy\s+.*?id\s+.*?(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\
+d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\w+)/i)
     ($line =~ /(\d+)%\s+\/var\s+(\d+).*?(\d+)%\s+Interleaved\s+.*?avm
+\s+.*?fre\s+.*?cs\s+.*?us\s+.*?sy\s+.*?id\s+.*?GMT\s+(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d)
+\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)\s+(\w+)/i)
    #($line =~ /(\d+)%\s+\/var\s+(\d+).*?(\d+)%\s+Interleaved\s+.*?avm
+\s+.*?fre\s+.*?id\s+.*?\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\w+)/i)
        #($line =~ /(\d+)%\s+\/var\s+(\d+).*?(\d+)%\s+Interleaved\s+(\
+w+)/i)
    {
    $worksheet->write("A$row", "$device");
    $worksheet->write("B$row", "$1");
        $worksheet->write("C$row", "$2");
        $worksheet->write("D$row", "$3");
        $worksheet->write("E$row", "$4");
        $worksheet->write("F$row", "$5");
        $worksheet->write("G$row", "$6");
    $worksheet->write("H$row", "$7");
    $worksheet->write("I$row", "$8");
    $worksheet->write("j$row", "$9");
    $worksheet->write("j$row", "$10");

    ++$row;
    print "$device $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10\n";
    }

  $device = $nextDevice;
  $line = '';
  }

close inFile;

$workbook->close ();
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is my final code and i couldn't get the date stamp. that's the only problem !