c-ip being the IP address I want to extract

Since you haven't put this actual address in, it cannot be searched for in the sample data. But that's OK because really you just want whatever is in its place, so this will suffice:

#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; while (<DATA>) { my ($ip) = (/ 443 - (.+) curl/); print "Line $.: Found $ip\n"; } __DATA__ 2017-12-08 07:01:39 <s-ip> GET /course-detail.aspx id=66&catColor=0 44 +3 - <c-ip> curl/7.19.7+(x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)+libcurl/7.19.7+NSS/3 +.27.1+zlib/1.2.3+libidn/1.18+libssh2/1.4.2 200 0 0 530 2017-12-08 07:01:39 <s-ip> GET /course-listing.aspx - 443 - <c-ip> cur +l/7.19.7+(x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)+libcurl/7.19.7+NSS/3.27.1+zlib/1.2 +.3+libidn/1.18+libssh2/1.4.2 200 0 0 140 2017-12-08 07:01:39 <s-ip> GET /course-detail.aspx id=24&catColor=0 44 +3 - <c-ip> curl/7.19.7+(x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)+libcurl/7.19.7+NSS/3 +.27.1+zlib/1.2.3+libidn/1.18+libssh2/1.4.2 200 0 0 93 2017-12-08 07:01:40 <s-ip> GET /logistics.aspx - 443 - <c-ip> curl/7.1 +9.7+(x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)+libcurl/7.19.7+NSS/3.27.1+zlib/1.2.3+li +bidn/1.18+libssh2/1.4.2 200 0 0 46 2017-12-08 07:01:40 <s-ip> GET /course-detail.aspx id=23&catColor=0 44 +3 - <c-ip> curl/7.19.7+(x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)+libcurl/7.19.7+NSS/3 +.27.1+zlib/1.2.3+libidn/1.18+libssh2/1.4.2 200 0 0 140

In reply to Re^3: How to grep matching IP address from a log file? by hippo
in thread How to grep matching IP address from a log file? by dotowwxo

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