As I have never posed questions to the Perl Gods, I wasn't what you needed here is the data: 
The date  time> [21]Alert Started (34897), Status: etc...
the code reads: 
       ($date_stamp,$event,$alert_id,$status)=split(/>/);
but that only breaks off the first part.  Now I need to go 
further: 
 1:)  > works for the date_stamp
 2:)  [ is needed for the [21] Alert Started (The [21] is 
not always the same but this little phrase always ends 
in "ed".
3:)(34897)is the alert_id but can vary from 1-5digits
4:) , will work for Status. 
How do I use [ and ) for split delimiters and how do I list 
more than a one delimiter split?

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Help Please????

Edit 2001-03-26 by tye to add <code> tags

In reply to split delimiters II by bailybj

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