Thanks for the reccomendation. This is what I have so far, it is mostly cannibalized from a similar reporting scheme. The comparison tags in here are from the original script, I will not be searching for things like dkcHWProcessor in my script.

I just need to figure out how to get the line after something is found, IE the line directly after SA220 Fault report, and place it into the array entry. I also need to be able to check that field and compare to "The array is operating normally." in order to flag for the summary.

use strict;
use Time::Local;
use File::Basename;
use File::Spec;
use Cwd;
use Getopt::Long;
use constant TRUE  => 1;
use constant FALSE => 0;
use MIME::Lite::TT::HTML; 
use warnings;

my $OUTFILE_3 = "/EMC/faults.txt";
my $OUTFILE_5 = "EMCerrors.txt";
my $OUTFILE_6 = "EMCerrorlog.txt";
my $OUTFILE_7 = "EMCmailtxt.txt";
my $OUTFILE_8 = "/EMC/simrc.txt";
# Get the current time and date

my @months = qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec);
my @weekDays = qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun);
my $second = undef;
my $minute = undef;
my $hour = undef;
my $dayOfMonth = undef;
my $month = undef;
my $yearOffset = undef;
my $dayOfWeek = undef;
my $dayOfYear = undef;
my $daylightSavings = undef;

($second, $minute, $hour, $dayOfMonth, $month, $yearOffset, $dayOfWeek
+, $dayOfYear, $daylightSavings) = localtime();
my $year = 1900 + $yearOffset;
my $theTime = "$hour:$minute:$second, $weekDays[$dayOfWeek] $months[$m
+onth] $dayOfMonth, $year";

my @TEMP_ARRAY_1 = undef;
my @TEMP_ARRAY_2 = undef;
my @TEMP_ARRAY_3 = undef;
my $SRCHSTR = undef;
my $SRCHSTR1 = undef;
my $SRCHSTR2 = undef;
my $SRCHSTR3 = undef;
my $PRTSTR = undef;
my %PARAMS; 

open(F_INFILE_3, "< $OUTFILE_3");
open(F_INFILE_8, "< $OUTFILE_8");


$PARAMS{MTIME} = $theTime;
foreach (<F_INFILE_3>) {
    chomp $_;
    $_ =~ s /^\s//g;
    $_ =~ s /\./_/g;
    
    if ( $_ =~ m/dkcHWProcessor/g ) {
        @TEMP_ARRAY_1 = split("=",$_);
        @TEMP_ARRAY_2 = split(":",$TEMP_ARRAY_1[1]);
        $PARAMS{SA120} = $TEMP_ARRAY_2[1];
        if ( $PARAMS{SA120} =~ m/noError/g ) {
        } else {
            $PARAMS{SUMMARY} = $PARAMS{SUMMARY}= "SA120;";
        }
    }
    
    if ( $_ =~ m/dkcHWCSW/g ) {
        @TEMP_ARRAY_1 = split("=",$_);
        @TEMP_ARRAY_2 = split(":",$TEMP_ARRAY_1[1]);
        $PARAMS{SA121} = $TEMP_ARRAY_2[1];
        if ( $PARAMS{SA121} =~ m/noError/g ) {
        } else {
            $PARAMS{SUMMARY} = $PARAMS{SUMMARY}= "SA121;";
        }
    }

    if ( $_ =~ m/dkcHWCache/g ) {
        @TEMP_ARRAY_1 = split("=",$_);
        @TEMP_ARRAY_2 = split(":",$TEMP_ARRAY_1[1]);
        $PARAMS{SA122} = $TEMP_ARRAY_2[1];
        if ( $PARAMS{SA122} =~ m/noError/g ) {
        } else {
            $PARAMS{SUMMARY} = $PARAMS{SUMMARY}= "SA122;";
        }
    }

    if ( $_ =~ m/dkcHWSM/g ) {
        @TEMP_ARRAY_1 = split("=",$_);
        @TEMP_ARRAY_2 = split(":",$TEMP_ARRAY_1[1]);
        $PARAMS{SA210} = $TEMP_ARRAY_2[1];
        if ( $PARAMS{SA210} =~ m/noError/g ) {
        } else {
            $PARAMS{SUMMARY} = $PARAMS{SUMMARY}= "SA220;";
        }


    }

    if ( $_ =~ m/dkcHWPS/g ) {
        @TEMP_ARRAY_1 = split("=",$_);
        @TEMP_ARRAY_2 = split(":",$TEMP_ARRAY_1[1]);
        $PARAMS{SA211} = $TEMP_ARRAY_2[1];
        if ( $PARAMS{SA211} =~ m/noError/g ) {
        } else {
            $PARAMS{SUMMARY} = $PARAMS{SUMMARY}= "SA221;";
        }

    }
    
    if ( $_ =~ m/dkcHWBattery/g ) {
        @TEMP_ARRAY_1 = split("=",$_);
        @TEMP_ARRAY_2 = split(":",$TEMP_ARRAY_1[1]);
        $PARAMS{SA212} = $TEMP_ARRAY_2[1];
        if (  $PARAMS{SA212} =~ m/noError/g ) {
        } else {
            $PARAMS{SUMMARY} = $PARAMS{SUMMARY}= "SA222;";
        }
    }

}
close F_INFILE_3;


if ( $PARAMS{SUMMARY} eq "" ) {
    $PARAMS{SUMMARY} = "NO ERRORS FOUND";
    my $msg = MIME::Lite::TT::HTML->new( 
            From        =>  'santeam@bla.com',
        To          =>  'pbkhk@bla.com',
            Subject     =>  'EMC CX HEALTH REPORT:NO ERRORS FOUND',
            Template    =>  {
                                html    =>  'EMC.html.tt',
                            },
            TmplParams  =>  \%PARAMS, 
    ); 
    $msg->send; 
} else {
    $PARAMS{SUMMARY} = "ERRORS FOUND:".$PARAMS{SUMMARY};
    my $msg = MIME::Lite::TT::HTML->new( 
            From        =>  'santeam@bla.com',
        To          =>  'pbkhk@bla.com',
            Subject     =>  'EMC CX HEALTH REPORT:ERRORS FOUND',
            Template    =>  {
                                html    =>  'EMC.html.tt',
                            },
            TmplParams  =>  \%PARAMS, 
    ); 
    $msg->send; 
};
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