in reply to Re^5: Perl Regex
in thread Perl Regex

Yes, that is exactly where your problem is. You are not matching the whole line in the log-file, but only a part of it.

Perhaps you have to rethink your approach and not split the log-lines by spaces, but craft individual regexes for each field.

CountZero

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