Hi all, thanks to all those that helped with my previous post.
My problem now is I always seem to only read the first line of my data file. I need to read the file 8 times (I know this is not ideal) and compare the variable $Pos against the first field in each line of data ($NewPos) 
  my @Column_Info = ( [ 1024, 1067 ],     # Column 1 start stop
                      [ 1068, 1093 ],     # Column 2 start stop
                      [ 1094, 1137 ],     # Column 3 start stop
                      [ 1138, 1163 ],     # Column 4 start stop
                      [ 1164, 1207 ],     # Column 5 start stop
                      [ 1208, 1233 ],     # Column 6 start stop
                      [ 1234, 1277 ],     # Column 7 start stop
                      [ 1278, 1321 ] );   # Column 8 start stop
<snip>
    open(IN,"cat /tmp/show_library.$$|");
    while (<IN>) {
      while ($Pos <= $EndPos) {
        $_ =~ s/^ //;
        chomp;
printf "DEBUG: String: '%s', Position: %d, New Position: %d, Label: %s
+\n", $_, $Pos, $NewPos, $NewLabel;
        if ($Pos == 1024) {
          printf "%s Diag tape\n", $Pos;
          $Library[$Count][$Column_Count] = $_;
        }
        else {
          ($NewPos, $NewLabel) = split(' ', $_, 9999);
printf "DEBUG: String: '%s', Position: %d, New Position: %d, Label: %s
+\n", $_, $Pos, $NewPos, $NewLabel;
<snip>
        }
        $Column_Count++;
        $Pos++;
      }
    }

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Any ideas where I am going wrong here?
TIA
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