I have one file where I use the substr to get out all the id's and push them into an array.

I then open the log file and find the line that the id shows up on, but I actually want the next line to be the message that goes into the OUTFILE.

I think the problem is with the foreach loop as I am getting an error.

Error: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at ./amp_parse.pl line 39,

use strict;
use warnings;

my $IDFILE = 'H_E';
my $AMPFILE = 'a.log';
my $OUTFILE = 'report.lst';

my @id_hits;


# loop through the id file to get the prime id from each line and
# push it onto the @hits array
#
open my $IFILE, '<', $IDFILE or die "Could not open $IDFILE: $!";

my @id_hits=map substr($_, 0, 6), <$IFILE>;

#print "@id_hits";

# loop through the amp.log find the line matches for the hits in
# this @id_hits array.
#
open my $AFILE, '<', $AMPFILE or die "Could not open $AMPFILE: $!";

my ( $line, $next_line );

my @log = <$AFILE>;
while ( @log ) {
    foreach my $prime_id ( @id_hits ) {
        $line = shift @log until $line =~ /$prime_id/;
        undef $line;
        $next_line = shift @log until $next_line =~ /^AMP-commit/;
        my $amp_msg = $next_line;
        undef $next_line;
        open my $OFILE, '>', $OUTFILE or die "Cannot create report fil
+e: $!";
        print $OFILE "$prime_id:\t$amp_msg\n" or die "Cannot print to 
+file: $!";
        close $OFILE;
    }
}
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Any help and suggestions?

Robert

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