my $inputfile = $ARGV[0];
 my $outputfile = $ARGV[1];

 open (OUTPUT_FILE, ">$outputfile");

my $Request_id;	

my $Variable_number;	
my $Variable;
my $Choice;

my @VARIABLE;
my @CHOICE;

my $Command; 

my $Return_results;

my $Component_number_old = 1;
my $Component_number = 1;

my $SPROC;
my $unique;

my $elements_in_array;
my $flat_file = $inputfile;


open (FLAT_FILE, "<$flat_file");


while (<FLAT_FILE>){
  chomp;
  
  $Component_number_old = $Component_number;
  
  if ($_ =~ /^$/) {

    exit;

  }
  elsif ($_ =~ /SPROC\sName\:\s([a-z|A-Z|0-9|_]{1,100})/){
    $SPROC = $1; 
  }
  elsif ($_ =~ /^\*(.{36})\;(\d{1,5})\;(\d{1,5})\;([a-z|A-Z|0-9|_]{1,50})\;(.{1,100})/){

    push (@VARIABLE, $Variable);
    push (@CHOICE, $Choice);
    print "Hi_B\n";
    $unique = $1;
    $Component_number = $2;
    $elements_in_array = $3;
    $Variable = $4;
    $Choice = $5;
  }
  
    if ($_ =~ /^\sEND/){
      
      print "Hi_E\n";
      push (@VARIABLE, $Variable);
      push (@CHOICE, $Choice);
      
      $Command = join(' ', 
                'EXEC', 
                 $SPROC, 
                 join(', ', 
                         @CHOICE[1 .. $elements_in_array])) . ';';

      my $Request_id = $CHOICE[26];

      Got_Command($Command, $Request_id, $outputfile);

      undef @CHOICE;
      my @CHOICE;
    }

}


close FLAT_FILE;



sub Got_Command  {

  my($Command,$Request_id, $outputfile) = @_;
    
  my $sthB_A =  $dbh->do($Command) or die "Couldn't do query: ".$dbh->errstr;
  
  my $Return_results = "Select * from Result_storage_keep where Unique_identifier LIKE '".$Request_id."' AND Aggregated_area = Instance_name AND Disease_cat = Cause_catagory\;";
  
  my $sth_C = $dbh->prepare($Return_results) or die "Couldn't prepare query: ".$dbh->errstr;
  
  $sth_C->execute() or die "Couldn't execute query: ".$sth_C->errstr;
  
  while (my @row = $sth_C->fetchrow_array) {

    print OUTPUT_FILE join("\t", @row);
    print OUTPUT_FILE "\n";

##  This is the bit that causes me problems

##  I get the error messages

# print() on closed filehandle OUTPUT_FILE at 20_October_2004_K.pl line 227, <FLAT
_FILE> line 29.
#print() on closed filehandle OUTPUT_FILE at 20_October_2004_K.pl line 228, <FLAT
_FILE> line 29.


  }

}