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In the following code I want to indent the first field a number of characters. If I do not include the first '@' before the '<<<<<' I get the left arrows printed on my screen.

My solution was to ad a '@' in the beginning of the line with a empty variable correlating to it. This does get my text that I want to display to indent but I don't like the idea of having to include an empty value just to do it.

I know I must be missing something.

Also, I realize the code here is terriable looking, I just threw it together as an example.

TIA, Chad.

my ($Company, $Department, $DeptCode, $Address, $Page, $Address2, $Pho
+neNumber, $NumPieces, $DatRcvd, $Month, $Day, $Year, $SubmittedBy) = 
+('US LEC','','','8210 University Exec Park Dr.','1 of 4','','704.319.
+6297','20','','10','07','2002','Chad Johnson');

my $NULL = '';





format STDOUT =
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<<
$NULL,     $Company
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<<
$NULL,       $Department,                     $DeptCode
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<<
$NULL,      $Address,
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<<
$Page,      $Address2
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<<
$NULL,      $PhoneNumber,                     $NumPieces
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<@<<@<<@<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$DatRcvd, $Month,$Day,$Year,         $SubmittedBy
.


write;
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As it is written above I get(the format I want):

               US LEC

               8210 University Exec Park Dr.
1 of 4
               704.319.6297                               20
               10 07 2002  Chad Johnson
[download]

If I take out the '@' in the beginning of each line I get:

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<US LEC
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<8210 University Exec Park Dr.
1 of 4
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<704.319.6297                               20
               10 07 2002  Chad Johnson
[download]

In reply to indenting with 'format' by gnu@perl

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