Brain cramp after a large number of tries.
I want to read a cr/lf terminated file line by line and write each line as 200 bytes left justified and padded with blanks to another file, that is no newlines in the outfile. You can see below what I have at the moment.
The output is not very near what I want:
Line #1: left justified, trailing blanks removed, i.e. _not_ 200 bytes wide
subsequent lines: right justified, padded with blanks, 200 bytes wide.
As mentioned, I don’t want a newline at all. And it’s not very nice that the first line is printed differently than all the others.

Suggestions? 
    open (INFILE, "<", $infile) or die $!;
    open (OUTFILE, ">:raw", $outfile) or die $!;            
    while ( <INFILE> ) {
        chomp;        
        printf OUTFILE '%-200s', $_; 
    }    
    close INFILE;
    close OUTFILE;

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In reply to Write padded output without newline by firmament

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