Thank you so much for taking the time to help me with this. Your code has worked perfectly.

If you'll pardon my one last question (I know, I know, I feel like I can't figure anything out on my own either…), my only experience so far with writing out to a file has been in the form of this:

open(Input, '+<…') || die "No such file found!";
open(Output, '>…') || die "Can't find the file!";

while(<Input>) {

print Output $_; 

}

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With your code, when I run it I receive a log file with all the data properly formatted. I simply cannot seem to find the right way to then print that out to my Output file.

If I change print $file; to return $file; I do not receive any output so I know it's stored somewhere.

There are a few more edits I need to make to the file before writing out as well. Would I write another subroutine, such as "handle_section" and place it within the primary subroutine?

In reply to Re^7: Use Perl's Sort to only sort certain lines in a file? by grahambuck
in thread Use Perl's Sort to only sort certain lines in a file? by grahambuck

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