This is the right place to get help, but to get good help you have to do a little work first.

For a start you could provide a little sample of the data that you need to parse like this (note the use of <code> tags, see Writeup Formatting Tips):

__DATA__
Warning: a warning message
Exception: an exception message

Message: a message
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Then to really get us excited about helping provide a sample of code that you have written and tell us where you are having trouble.

Note that it is generally a bad idea to include email addresses in nodes as they can easily be picked up by spammers and other such low life. Most monks wouldn't email you an answer anyway because the next person to have a similar problem won't get the benefit of the question you asked.

Welcome to the Monastery, odysee7. I hope your stay here will be a productive and educational one.

First of all, to your question....

Regarding your actual question itself, it is a little difficult without at least an example of what you are looking for, data-wise. If the exception messages are one-per-line, then this reduces down to something on the order of

Now, about your question....

Again, welcome, and I hope your stay with be a productive, educational, and enjoyable one.

Isn't that a bit of a strange request from someone whose e-mail address is hosted at a company which writes on their website:

what we do
Everstream enables the world’s largest digital service providers to mine, transform, warehouse, and analyze usage data from their interactive platforms.

But since we are in a good mood, we will give you some free pointers to start your own research: hashes; angle bracket operator; while-loop;

BTW: asking a similar question two times in a row will not get you an answer any faster (you can re-open and update your original node if necessary) and will not particualrly enamour you with the Monks here.

I need help writing a perl script,

You've come to the right place. What have you done so far? What's your first question?

I recommend that you start by reading How (Not) To Ask A Question.

Where do I begin, since I am new to perl and no very little.

Begin by reading the tutorials section here and asking questions about stuff you don't understand.

Read through some of the SoPW questions and replies that look interesting.

Ask questions in the Chatterbox.

Get or borrow the Camel (Programming Perl) or the Lama (Learning Perl).

Write some simple Perl programs.

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DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

Help yourself, read the responses odysee7 received