My guess? Because the commas are each part of another element of @L1, because they had "notice", "[", "mpmstats:", or "\t" inbetween them.
Try this fix:
# ...
if ( ($line =~ /notice/) && ($line =~ /rdy/) )
# Spaces to commas
$line =~ s/ /,/g;
# Get rid of "notice", "[", "mpmstats:", and tabs inside the line.
$line =~ s/notice|\[|mpmstats:|\t//g;
# Change the dreaded Triple Comma into the nice and smooth Single
+Comma.
$line =~ s/,,,/,/g;
# Or even the following if you want to replace all multiple subs
+equent commas by
# just one:
# $line =~ s/,,+/,/g;
# Show me what I've got
print $line;
}
See how I wrote your [[] as \[? I think it's more readable that way. Also, regular expression understand \t just fine. There's no need to put it into a character class. And if ( ($line =~ /notice/) && ($line =~ /rdy/) ) { pretty much does the same thing as your two if statements. The inner parens are optional, but I prefer to write it that way.
