Hi, I'm pretty new at perl, but you guys and gals have been exremely helpful thus far - thanks!!!

I'm trying to format the output from each of the 4 statements below so that they're final format is on one page in columns(i.e. , 

                        2001    2002   2003   2004
                        yr_01   yr_02  yr_03  yr_04
                        yr_01   yr_02  yr_03  yr_04,etc).

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I can print the output from the first statement but if I print the output for all 4 statements it mixes all 4 together, which is not what I want. I want each year in a separate column.

I know how to use write function to format( i.e. @<<<< ) but I'm having trouble temporarily saving these 4 outputs as separate variables that I can write to the final report. Do I have to write these outputs to temporary files?

Thanks!

Scott 

#!/gov/ecf/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

my $records = 'scott.d3';
my $FhIn;

open $FhIn, '<', $records or die "Could not open $records: $!";
while( my $line = <$FhIn> ) {
   my ( $county, $year_x, $yr_tot ) = split ' ', $line;
   if ( $year_x eq "1" ) {
   $year_x += $yr_tot;
   print "$county    $yr_tot\n";
}
   elsif ( $year_x eq "2" ) {
   $year_x += $yr_tot;
}
   elsif ( $year_x eq "3" ) {
   $year_x += $yr_tot;
}
   elsif ( $year_x eq "4" ) {
   $year_x += $yr_tot;
}
}
close $FhIn or die $!;

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