print "\"$field1\"\t\"$field2\"\n"; output... I took out "" in data input because it was too confusing a printout. "-0.500" " 4.502e-6" "-0.499" " 4.474e-6" "-0.498" " 4.458e-6" "-0.497" " 4.445e-6" "-0.496" " 4.433e-6" "-0.495" " 4.421e-6"