Hello, I have a script on a cron which reads a table and then does a few calculations and prints the output to a log file. Now my problem is when I run the script just once, it gives the desired output. But when I put the job on a cron, the END stmnt of the script is repeated numerous times. Now, I need the log to have only one END statement at the bottom, but the output of the cronjob should be appended above the END statement, IN THE LOG ie....the END is read, only once and the data in printed numerous times above it.Here is my code:- 
foreach $x (@x) {
                  printf "%7d",$x;
                                       }

             ###############END OF FILE###########
END {
            foreach $y(@y) {
                               printf "%7s",$y;
                                }
                   } 
}

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