print"463694|BROOKS JR|JAMES|Arnold Markoe|1/17/03|MD Wkly Note|H:\17
+\00004DA5.0057\\00004DA5.005|

479309|WALDMAN|MELVI|Arnold Markoe|1/17/03|MD Wkly Note|H:\16\00004DE0
+.0056\\00004DE0.005|

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\n"; Why is printing for example "\\00004DA5.005|" the extra stuff. I only need $fields10..5|H:\<subdir>\<file.ext>' I'll appreciate your help I modified the code that you send me as follows: 
 print "#! perl -w

use strict;
my $infile  = 'c:/doclist.chr';
my $outfile = 'c:/doclist.txt';


#use File::Find;

#use File::Copy cp;

   
   open IN, "<$infile"  or die "Couldn't open $infile, $!";
   open OUT,">$outfile" or die "Couldn't open $outfile, $!";


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

  while(<IN>) {
   chomp;
   my @fields = split /,/;
   my $string1 = $fields[6];
   do { warn "Empty field 7"; next } unless $string1;

   # this will keep the first 24 chars of string, throw out the rest a
+nd
   # then append H:\ to it.    # need \\ here or it won't compile

   my $string_header = $string1;

   substr($string_header,0,24) = 'H:';

   # this will return :\ as  we get 2 chars LEN from pos 25
   my $string2 = substr($string1,26,2);


   # this will set $string3 to the last 13 chars of the string
   my $string3 = substr($string1,-13);

   my $finstring = $string_header.$string2.$string3;
    
   my $out = join '|', @fields[0..5], $finstring, "\n";

   print OUT $out;
}
exit;

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\n";

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