Hi all i am new to perl just trying to figure out how I would format my output to look a certain way if possible. I want it be in 3 columns 10 rows Avery 5160 format, but without the use of PostScript. but right now it only show all in one column all the way down. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Program name: perlReadAndFormat.pl
# Purpose: Open disk file. Read and display the records in
#          the file. Count the number of records in the file.
format LABEL =
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$CUSTID
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$fname
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$lname
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$phone
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$address
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$city
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$state
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$zip
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$email

.  

#$topmargin = 0.60;
#$poleft = 0.4;
$pomiddle = 3.20;
$poright = 5.95;
$lheight = 1;

$row = int($opt{r}) || 1;    # chop off any fractional parts and
$col = int($opt{c}) || 1;

if ($col == 1) {
  $po = $poleft;
} elsif ($col == 2) {
  $po = $pomiddle;
} else {
  $po = $poright;
}
#
$sp = ($topmargin + ($row - 1)*$lheight);

# required terminator for format definition

open (FILEIN, "cust.txt") || warn "Could not open passwd file\n";
open (LABEL, ">labels-to-print") || warn "Can't create labels file\n";
while (<FILEIN>)  
{ 
     #print "$_"; 
     ($CUSTID,$fname,$lname,$phone,$address,$city,$state,$zip,$email) 
+= split(/,/,$_);
     # Or use array:  @fields = split(/,/,$_);
    write(LABEL);  # send to output
     ++$line_count;
}


print ("File \"passwd\" has $line_count lines. \n");
close (FILEIN);
close (LABEL);

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