Greetings, I am having a little trouble understanding matching and getting the sub pattern saved to a Var. so that I can do a munge. I want to take the line returns and change them into pipe characters '|' All data records start with a date i.e. 01/01/2006 But there are fields in between that are one multiple lines. Sample data is below the script.
Here's what I have so far.... #!/usr/bin/perl -w open(FI,"test.txt") || die "Read in, Could not find File, $!"; my @files = <FI>; close(FI); for (@files){ chomp($_); $_ =~m|(\d+/\d+/\d+)(?s)(.+?)\d+/\d+/\d+|; $2 =~tr/\n/|/; print "$1$2\n"; # save out modified result... } Given this data: 09/01/2006|03:29AM Password for qsocordovam reset by Self Reset utility Username: qsocordovam ClientNumber: 77927 IP address: 24.248.1.241 09/01/2006|07:53AM Failed reset attempt Username: tmpcollic03 ClientNumber: 110330 IP address: 152.121.16.7 Failed challenge question(s) 09/01/2006|07:55AM Failed reset attempt Username: tmpcollic03 ClientNumber: 110330 IP address: 152.121.16.7 Failed challenge question(s) 09/01/2006|08:03AM Failed reset attempt Desired result: 09/01/2006|03:29AM Password for qsocordovam reset by Self Reset utility|Username: qsocordovam|ClientNumber: 77927|IP address: 24.248.1.241 #Next record.... starts with a date of format : 09/01/2006 Thanks for any input on my output :) Dave Gilden (kora musician / audiophile / webmaster @ www.coraconnection.com / Ft. Worth, TX, USA) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>