Hi dbach355

Seeing as how The number of fields is fixed, the number of fixed field lengths and variable field lengths varies - if all you need is another file with custom delimiters; you can achieve this with a one-liner:

perl -lawpe "$_=qq|$F[0]\\f$F[1]\\f$F[2]\\f$F[3]|" in.txt > out.txt
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The offset within the @F array denotes each input field in your file; so offset 0 would represent ssn, offset 1 employee number and so on; simply craft your output line how you'd like it... See http://www.perl.com/pub/2004/08/09/commandline.html for additional command line options.

Cheers,
Shadowsong