I have my program output formatted using the 'format' function. However, when I try to write the output to a file I'm not getting the formatted output (with header) written to the file, just one line of data. When I run it using 'STDOUT' it looks fine on screen. I'm sure I'm missing something simple because I am new to perl. Help! -Scott 
my $records = 'scott.d3';
my $FhIn;
my $yr_01;
my $yr_02;
my $yr_03;
my $yr_04;
my $timestamp = localtime(time());

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" ) {
   $yr_01 = $yr_tot;
}
   elsif ( $year_x eq "2" ) {
   $yr_02 = $yr_tot;
}
   elsif ( $year_x eq "3" ) {
   $yr_03 = $yr_tot;
}
   elsif ( $year_x eq "4" ) {
   $yr_04 = $yr_tot;

format STDOUT_TOP =

                 COMPANY NAME 
                More Text Here 


             @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
             $timestamp

COUNTY       2001       2002       2003       2004
------     ------     ------     ------     ------
.

format STDOUT = 
@<<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<
$county     $yr_01     $yr_02     $yr_03     $yr_04

open(FILE,">report.txt") or die "Can not open file";
select FILE;
$~ = STDOUT;
$^ = STDOUT_TOP;

write;
}
}
close(FILE);
close $FhIn or die $!;

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