Hi All Monks,

I am pretty new to perl and I wrote a small perl script to ease my pain, did not work.

My input looks like this with over 20 line in the text file.

18:06:04.616 [79952.57692] <2> logparams: -S server1.prod.com -D serve
+r2.prod.com -C server3.prod.com -X -s 1421467204 -e 1421467204 -R E:\
+Program Files\725635\logs\log.tmp.chg -K -t 13 -M -k  -L E:\Program F
+iles\725635\logs\infod.tmp.log -W -f E:\Program Files\725635\logs\aft
+er.tmp
17:49:34.216 [58140.81564] <2> logparams: -S -l -a -k server1.prod.com
+ -D client10.prod.com -C sql12.prod.com -X -s 1421467205 -e 142146720
+5 -R E:\Program Files\561234\logs\log.tmp.chg -K -t 13 -M -k  -L E:\P
+rogram Files\561234\infod10.tmp.log -W -f E:\Program Files\561234\log
+s\after.tmp

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and my output should look like this:

server1.prod.com,server2.prod.com,server3.prod.com,725635,infod.tmp.lo
+g
server1.prod.com,client10.prod.com,sql12.prod.com,561234,infod10.tmp.l
+og

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My script look like this, it worked only when the count is right as you can see the second line the count went way off, the fields count in my code is not accurate but you get the point. I need a different logic, can you guys help me out.. Thank you all

open(FILE, $filename) or die "Could not read from $filename, program h
+alting.";
while(<FILE>)
{
  # get rid of the pesky newline character
  chomp;
  # read the fields in the current record into an array
  @fields = split(/[\s\\]+/, $_);
   $datestring = localtime();
   open logreport, ">>E:\\temp\\logs\\eligiblereport.txt";
   print logreport "$date,$fields[5],$fields[7],$fields[9],$fields[24]
+,$fields[43]\n";
}
close logreport;
close FILE;

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In reply to help with splitting and printing the array by perlnewbie012215

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