I'd say you're on the right track. As long as you apply the regex to tear the 'MONKEY' part out of column 3 before you check to see if you've seen it before, you should do just fine.
I would make one pass through each line to build a hash with the value from column 3 as the key pointing to a hashref with num_false (a count) and col1_vals (an arrayref). Then I would go through each key of that hash and run the calculations you want to run. I'm thinking something like this (assuming your lines are in @lines):
my %seen = ();
foreach my $line (@lines) {
my @values = split ',', $line;
my $col1_val = $values[0];
my $key = $values[2];
my $true_or_false = $values[7];
$key =~ /^LOGGED IN (\w+) GET/;
$key = $1;
$seen{$key}->{num_false}++ if $true_or_false eq 'false';
push @{$seen{$key}->{col1_vals}}, $col1_val;
}
foreach my $key (keys %seen) {
my $calcd = calculate_stuff($seen{$key}->{col1_vals});
my $num_false = $seen{$key}->{num_false};
print <<HERE;
Key: $key
Calc'd values: $calcd
Num false: $num_false
HERE
}
I just took a stab at guessing the proper regex (for example: are spaces allowed?) because I don't know what all your input looks like, but the basic idea holds.
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