Ok, here's two pieces of code that i'm trying to use.

This one is to try to center the headings and print the page numbers

#!/usr/bin/perl

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 $width = 80;
my $heading;

print "Page: $pageNum\n";

#while (Project3)
{
        if (/(SECTION)(\s)(\d+)(.*)(\3)(\.1\.)(.*)/)
        {
                $heading = "$1.$2.$3.$4";
                format Ident =
                @|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+||
                "$heading"
                .
        }
}
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This is what it returns:

[evans:19:55:07 perl]$ ./project3-6.pl
Global symbol "$pageNum" requires explicit package name at ./project3-
+6.pl line 25.
Missing right curly or square bracket at ./project3-6.pl line 40, at e
+nd of line
syntax error at ./project3-6.pl line 40, at EOF
Execution of ./project3-6.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
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I know that I need to define the $pageNum but I don't know what to define it as. And I can't figure out the other errors. I am VERY NEW to perl, and to unix for that matter.

This is the other code I used to try to center the headings:

#!/usr/bin/perl

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 $width = 80;
my $heading;

for (@Project3)
{
        if (/(SECTION)(\s)(\d+)(.*)(\3)(\.1\.)(.*)/)
        {
                $heading = $1.$2.$3.$4;
                print " " x (($width-length($heading))/2);
        }
}
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It doesn't print anyting.

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