Ok I am new to perl and all and not exactly sure how to do this so I am here asking you all. I have a file which contains on each line something similar to 011349786:200:Singer:Samuel:6

And I want to break it apart check if the department number (the 200) is = 100 and then format it like 

Singer Samuel 011349786 6
Heres what i have so far after looking through man perlre and seeing this method to parse 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

open(EMPLOYEES,"employees") || die "Cannot Open";
while(<EMPLOYEES>){
            if(/(..):(..):(..):(..):(..)/){ 
            #Suppost to parse $_
            $ID = $1;
            $DP = $2;
            $LN = $3;
            $FN = $4;
            $NM = $5;}  
            print $ID; #
            print $DP; #
            print $LN; # So I can see if a value is there
            print $FN; #
            print $NM; # 
             
            print $LN."\t".$FN."\t".$ID."\t".$NM;
            }
}
close(EMPLOYEES)

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The errors i get are Use of uninitialized value at program line 15, <EMPLOYEES> chunk 26.

I get that for all lines i print out the values. Thanks for any help

Edit kudra, 2001-12-22 Changed title, added p breaks

In reply to Splitting and formatting a line by keraam

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