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Just wanted to say thanks to joeyg and chris for the help with this problem. I made adjustments to joeyg's code and it formatted everything perfectly. I did come across with some special characters...

I think the <B1> caused the failure.

3 910-0145 BAT. CARRIER,TOP,SMK,FRONT LOAD BAT. A 1.00000 EA U J M M No
3 910-0146 ...

The above perl Snippet worked. Joeyg, your code worked but then bombed out on line 96 of 58000. I'm trying to see why. Thanks everyone for your help. I was surely stumped and skinning the cat the...

I have a file of about 60,000 lines of output. Each line has multiple fields, some blank. I have an example of what it looks like the way it needs to look by manually lining things up in vi and...

Another issue is that I need to maintain the white spaces in the last several columns in or do account for place holders for no data.

I played around with your snippet of code. It is definitely useful but it has solved my problem just yet. Although I get alignment on column 3, the following columns are out of place. Any other...

what is should look like
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1 21007527 LID,DET,C/S,BULK,PEZ,7 1/2x18 1/2x X A 1.00000 EA U J M M No
1 21007528 ...

The white spaces are removed from my posting. Is there a way I can post without that happening? Otherwise, I'd have to email you directly the examples of what it currently looks like and what is...

I have the following data from a manual database dump. I need to format the columns so that I can import them into an excel spread sheet. So far I have been able to get past the hurdles with vi and...