Side note: Please do not double post. You can edit your posts or add additional notes instead.

This is a simple example to get you started: 

$/ = \ 7 * 1024; # read 7 K records.

while (<>) {  # read record into $_
   my $info = substr($_, 0, 1000); # put first 1000 bytes in $info
   my $lab = substr($_, 1000, 1000);
   my $diagnosis = substr($_, 20000, 49999);
   my $last = chop; # get last character

   # now do stuff with that data

}

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In reply to Re: (dup) Perl for flat file conversions? by Joost
in thread New to PERL - file format conversions to do by Mikhailoh

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