Hello, i'm working on this program that opens a file reads its content line by line and replaces commas with pipes; then graps a string and format it to put it into another file. I'm not sure it fI should be using an array with this program to do the formatting of $var7 field or could it be done the way, I have it now. Could you give me any suggestions on how to handle a string formatting. 
 print "#! perl -w

use strict;

#use File::Find;

#use File::Copy cp;

sub parse_file
{

my $string1;
my $string2;
my $string3;
my $finstring;

   
   open(IN, '<c:/doclist.chr') or die "Couldn't open file, $!";


   open(OUT, '>c:/doclist.txt') or die "Couldn't open file, $!";


   ##   print OUT join '|', split /,/ while <IN>;

  while(<IN>) 
   {
       chomp;  # Remove the newline

       my ($var1, $var2, $var3, $var4, $var5, $var6, $var7) = split /,
+/;

       $string1 = $var7;

       substr($string1, 24) = "H:\";
 
       $string2 = substr($string1,25,2);

       $string3 = substr($string1,-13);

       $finstring = $string1.$string2.$string3;    
      

       print OUT "$var1,"|",$var2,"|",$var3,"|",$var4,"|",$var5,"|",$v
+ar6,"|",$finstring," \n";
    
    
   }

exit;

}




    









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