Thank you all for your input, Here is what I have so far: 
#--------Clean Phone Number

$newphone = $phone
$newphone = =~ s/[^0-9]//g;
    
#-----Length of cleaned Number

$phonelength = length($newphone)
  
#-----Update Counter and Print Output
if (length($newphone) != 4 and length($newphone) != 10) {
   # add asterisks
   $emph = "****"
} else {
   $emph = ""
   # print number
   Print PHONELIST, sprintf "%16d %100s", $phone[1], $abs_filename[2],
+ "\n";    
   Print SUMMARY, sprintf "%16d %12d %4s %100s", %ctr++; $phone, 
                  $newphone[1], $emph[2], $phonelength[3],
                  $abs_filename[4] "\n";    
}

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Now my problem is adding/updating a counter for the output.

Added code tags and indents - dvergin 2003-04-07

In reply to Re: Character Counts by Anonymous Monk
in thread Character Counts by Anonymous Monk

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