Ok, I posted on here a few days ago concerning a homework assignment. Thanks a lot to everyone who's helped!

So now I'm moving forward and I need to center the section headings in this .txt file i've got. Here's part of the text that needs to be formatted:

======================================================================
+=======

SECTION 35 - BUILDING VIM FROM SOURCE


35.1. How do I build Vim from the sources on a Unix system?

For a Unix system, follow these steps to build Vim from the sources:

- Download the source and run-time filles archive (vim-##.tar.bz2) fro
+m the
  ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix directory.
- Extract the archive using the bzip2  and tar utilities using the com
+mand:

        $ bunzip2 -c <filename> | tar -xf -

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Now, to do the other parts of the project I needed to read it into an array and then chop the \n characters so it's one long string now.

There are a total of 37 Sections and every section heading has the row of = = = = = = before it. So, to center the section headings I did the following RE:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Reformat the project3Data.txt file to make more accesible

use strict;
use warnings;

my $file = '/u/home/jhart2/perl/project3Data.txt';      # Name the fil
+e
open(INFO, $file);              # Open the file for input
my @Project3 = <INFO>;          # Read it into an array

my $NoOfCharsPerLine = 80;
my $NoOfLinesPerPage = 100;
my $RightMargin = 7;
my $header = 3;
my $footer = 5;
my @argument;
my $width = 80; 
my $heading;

chop(@Project3);        # Remove \n characters

my $string = "@Project3";       # Define the string

my @chapters = split (/===+/, $string);         # Split the string 

while (<INFO>)
{
        if (/(SECTION)(\s)(\d+)(.*)(\3)(\.1\.)(.*)/)
        {
                $heading = $1.$2.$3.$4;
                print "$heading" x (($width-length($heading))/2);     
+  # Center the heading
        }
}

close(INFO);                    # Close the file

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...and here's the problem, it doesn't print anything. I know it has to be something simple, but I can't find it. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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