open (diff, "SAPPDAY.00063.new"); $count = 0; while () { if (/(^16|^88)/) { chomp $_; @words = split(/,/, $_); $field_cnt = $#words; # print " Field count = $field_cnt\n"; $last_length = length $words[$field_cnt]; # print " Field length= $last_length\n"; $num1 = $last_length-1; $num2 = $num - 1; # print " NUM 1 = [$num1]\n"; if ( substr($words[$field_cnt], $num1, 1) eq " " ) { $part1 = substr($words[$field_cnt], 0, $num2 ); $part2 = substr($words[$field_cnt], $last_length, 1); $words[$field_cnt] = $part1 . $part2; print "$words[$field_cnt]\n"; } exit; } }