Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys,

when i use the following code:

open(DEST, ">>DESTINATION_")|| die "$!"; #OPEN FILE FOR WRITING
@contents=@field;
print DEST "@contents\n";

I am creating a file that lookss like this:
Wed May 14 11:42:03 2008 10800 306973223399 19419-NEA 1 1259 1 3 80

What i want to do is to create a file that looks like the line below:
Wed May 14 11:42:03 2008| 10800| 306973223399| 19419-NEA| 1 | 1259| 1| 3| 80

This means that every field in the @contents must be seperated by its neighboor with a "|"

Any idea how am i going to implement this?

Thank you very much!

Code:

print DEST (join ("|", @contents), "\n");

You could also use @field directly; there is no benefit from copying the value to @contents separately.