I'm having a trouble formatting a file into a pipe delimited set of records.

The record file (file.txt) looks like this:

0211121253 Mike Dell ID06533
0211121253 Chris Jones ID02014
0211121253 Pa Kettle ID65255
0111119112 Mitch Poo ID05983

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I'm trying to read the file in to a handle and put a pipe ("|") at the beginning of each line. Then replace the spaces in each line with a pipe and then add a pipe to the. So, I would end up with a text file end of each line. It should resemble the following:

|0211121253|Mike|Dell|ID06533|
|0211121253|Chris|Jones|ID02014|
|0211121253|Pa|Kettle|ID65255|
|0111119112|Mitch|Poo|ID05983|

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Here's part of my code. I'm using the DBI module to query the original data from Oracle. I believe my error is because I'm working with an array and not string vars.

I would appriciate some advice on how this could be done.

$sth->execute;
    open (OUTFILE, "> file.txt")
        or die "Cant open dat file : $!";
    while (@row = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
        $_ =~ s/\s/\|/g;
        print OUTFILE "@row\n";
    }
    
close OUTFILE;

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Thanks, Neurotoxx

In reply to parse array to replace specific spaces with pipes by neurotoxx

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