use strict; use warnings; my $infile = 'b2bclient-gateway-heartbeat.log'; my $outfile = 'results.txt'; my($fh_out, $fh); open($fh_out, '>', $outfile) or die "Could not open outfile: $!"; # open($fh, '<', $infile) or die "Could not open logfile: $!"; # while (<$fh>) { while () { /TWO/ && print $fh_out $_; } close $fh_out; #close $fh; __DATA__ 2007-Nov-07 00:00:00 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = ONE, ref = 2007-Nov-07 00:00:01 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = TWO, ref = 2007-Nov-07 00:00:01 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = TWO, ref = 2007-Nov-07 00:00:02 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = THREE, ref = 2007-Nov-07 00:00:02 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = TWO, ref = 2007-Nov-07 00:00:03 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = TWO, ref = 2007-Nov-07 00:00:03 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = TWO, ref = 2007-Nov-07 00:00:04 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = TWO, ref =