Hello all, I've a question for you to ponder. I have recently written a script to rip through a log file, pick out interesting tidbits, and display them in a report, depending on what type of tidit it is. I have all of my reports being called in subroutines, and call them all in succession. My problem is that in the final report, there is a "^L" at the beginning of each report. Is there something that I am doing incorrectly? Here is a sample of one of my subroutines (they are all the same, except for the header and the data they use) 
sub DepOverrideRpt {
my ($i,$temp);
format DepOverride_Hdr=
Dependencies Overriden
=======================
     Job     |  Time
-------------|---------
.
my($key, $job, $time);
format DepOverride=
@<<<<<<<<<<<<|@>>>>>>>>
$job,$time
.
$temp=select(OUTFILE);
$~="DepOverride";
$^="DepOverride_Hdr";
$-=0;
select($temp);
foreach $i (0 .. 1)
{
 foreach $key (sort {$o_override[$i]{$a} cmp $o_override[$i]{$b} } key
+s %{$o_override[$i]})
 {
 $job=$key;
 $time=$o_override[$i]{$key};
 write OUTFILE;
 }
}
print OUTFILE "=======================\n\n";
}

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In the above example @o_override is an array of hashes used to store data from different days (%o_override[0] is a hash containing data from 6am - midnight on day 1, %o_override contains data from midnight to 6am on day 2) Any help would be appreciated, thor

In reply to Control Characters in reports... by thor

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