#!/usr/bin/perl open (diff, "SAPPDAY.00063.new"); while () { if (/(^16|^88)/) { @words=split(/,/, $_); $field_cnt=$#words ; print " Field count = $field_cnt\n" ; $last_length=length($words[$field_cnt]) ; $num1 =$last_length-1; if ( substr($words[$field_cnt], $num1, 1) eq " " ) { $part1 = substr($words[$field_cnt], 0, -2 ); $part2 = substr($words[$field_cnt], $last_length, 1 ); $words[$field_cnt] = $part1 . $part2; print out "$words[field_cnt]\n"; } } } ~