in reply to Re^2: Arranging multiple lines
in thread Arranging multiple lines

One way to do it is to pass the $out handle into the printdata function. Beware of commata after $out in this example:

use strict; use warnings; sub printdata { my $out = shift; my $data = shift; $$data{"User-Agent"} //= "--"; print $out join "|", @$data{ ( "Arrival Time", "From", "To", "User +-Agent" ) }; print $out "\n\n"; %$data = (); } open my $out, ">", "tmp.txt"; my %data; my ($item, $value); print $out "Arrival Time|From|To|User-Agent\n\n"; while(<DATA>){ chomp; next unless ($item, $value) = /^(.*?): (.*)/; printdata $out, \%data if $item eq "Arrival Time" and %data; $data{$item} = $value; } printdata $out, \%data;

Alternatively, you could assemble a string in printdata, return it from the sub and print later.