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Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How do I print instead of the following lines :
2000/06/19 15:22:13 NIB1_BSX Communications Alarm + Critical OMC and equipment Connection broken <tag> 2000/06/19 15:22:15 NIB1_MSC Communications Alarm + Critical OMC and equipment Connection broken and up<tag> 2000/06/19 16:03:25 [1]NIB1_MSC.0.0.3.0 Communications Alarm + Minor E1 Port Receive Carrier Loss <tag>
this output : (?)
2000/06/19 15:22:13 NIB1_BSX Communications Alarm + Critical OMC and equipment<tag> 2000/06/19 15:22:15 NIB1_MSC Communications Alarm + Critical OMC and equipment<tag> 2000/06/19 16:03:25 [1]NIB1_MSC.0.0.3.0 Communications Alarm + Minor E1 Port Receive C<tag>
i.e., I want the last field to be only 17 letters long.