#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; while() { chomp; my @elements = split /\s+/, $_; if ( $elements[2] eq '' ) { print "Directory: ",$elements[3], "\n"; } else { print "The size of $elements[3] is $elements[2] bytes.\n"; } } __DATA__ 03-26-07 05:23AM html 03-26-07 04:27AM ibm-laptop 03-26-07 03:16AM images 03-27-07 11:00PM 6397 index.html 03-26-07 03:45AM 10186 index1.html