Hello all, I am parsing several large text files and I am using unpack to seperate some fixed length records. One of our fellow perl monks users suggested that I look for a more elegant use of unpack. So here I am and this is what I have. 

__DATA__
AP040003EZ9891783    61125    N        BX    108.0 0000   03196       
+      00000   D    Y     B
BP041303DD554        009J0    N        BX      8.7 5000   03168       
+62    00000        Y     W


___PART OF THE CODE________

   elsif (/^\s+?\S{13}\s+?\S+?\s+?\S/){
      $_ =~ s/^\s*//;
      my @fields = unpack "a21 a9 a9 a2 a13 a8 a9 a9 a4 a5 a6", $_;

        print "      PIIN       \= $fields[0]\n";
        print "      FSCM       \= $fields[1]\n";
        print "      N/A        \= $fields[2]\n";
        print "      U/I        \= $fields[3]\n";
        print "      UNIT PRICE \= $fields[4]\n";
        print "      AWD DT     \= $fields[5]\n";
        print "      QTY        \= $fields[6]\n";
        print "      OPT DT     \= $fields[7]\n";
        print "      FOB        \= $fields[8]\n";
        print "      REP        \= $fields[9]\n";
        print "      TYPE       \= $fields[10]\n";
        print "\n";
   }

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Thanks in advance. -Shawn

In reply to A more elegant use of unpack by maida

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