#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my %devinfo; while () { next unless my ($date,$time, $device, $err) = /(\w+ \d+) ([\d:]+)\s(\S+) \[[^\]]+\]([^\(]+)\s?\(\d+/; $devinfo{$device}{$err}{COUNT}++; $devinfo{$device}{$err}{FIRST_TIME} ||= [$date, $time]; } for my $dev (sort keys %devinfo) { print "DEVICE\t--> $dev ==============\n"; for my $err (keys %{ $devinfo{$dev} }) { my $errinfo = $devinfo{$dev}{$err}; print "DATE\t--> $errinfo->{FIRST_TIME}[0]\n"; print "TIME\t--> $errinfo->{FIRST_TIME}[1]\n"; print "ERROR\t--> $err\n"; print "\nThe above error occurred $errinfo->{COUNT} times\n\n"; } } __DATA__