$rh->cmd('show class-of-service interface et-0/3/0 comprehensive | find " Queue counters:"');--> this displays the above output, internal command my $output = $rh->get_response; my @outputlist = split /\n+/, $output; foreach (0..$#outputlist) { if (($outputlist[$_] = /^0/) && ($outputlist[$_] = /^0\s(\d+)\s(\d+)/)) { print " match is $outputlist[$_]\n"; } } }