#!/usr/local/bin/perl open (MYFILE, 'logs_report'); open (MYF, '>data.txt'); while ($rec = <MYFILE>) { chomp($rec); @arr = split(/ /,$rec); if ($arr[12] !~ /OK/) { print $rec, "\n"; print MYF $red, "\n"; } } close (MYF); close (MYFILE);