No problem, yes I am matching entire lines from my syslog, but am using the capturing parens to pull out a synopsis of the data.
So instead of: 
Jun  2 03:09:40 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= 
+MAC=00:50:04:70:8c:ba:00:01:96:0d:03:70:08:00 SRC=211.199.195.208 DST
+=24.xx.xx.xxx LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=97 ID=35909 DF PROTO=TCP 
+SPT=3568 DPT=1025 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0

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I will have this: 
IP               Proto  Sport  Dport  Count
211.199.195.208  TCP    3568   1025   1

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And like I said, this is more for me to learn perl than any other reason. :)

In reply to Re^2: Configurable Matches by jdhawke
in thread Configurable Matches by jdhawke

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