If you are on a Linux machine, it might just be easier to use the grep command with a shell script.
FILE_NAME="./log" TMP_FILE="./tmp" IP_TO_REMOVE="192.168.0.0|192.168.0.255" COUNT=`grep $IP_TO_REMOVE $FILE_NAME | wc -l` echo "The IPs occur $COUNT times" grep -v $IP_TO_REMOVE $FILE_NAME > $TMP_FILE mv $TMP_FILE $FILE_NAME -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
