But your distinction between a plain text file and the .html output of your OP puzzles me again, as any difference should be negligible: the .html source is, to all intents and purposes as far as writing the file is concerned, a "plain text file."

I know what you mean. In the end I suspect that it was just because when I tried sending the output as plain text it greatly reduced the number of lines I sent out. All the HTMLSTUFF was removed and my do_this sub was reduced to a few lines. 

sub do_this() {
open FILE, "> $filename" or die "ERROR WRITTING FILE: $filename\nSyste
+m reported $!";


print FILE "\n"; 
foreach (sort keys(%stuff1) ) { print FILE "$stuff1{$_} | ";}
print FILE "\n"; 
foreach (sort keys(%stuff2) ) { print FILE "$stuff2{$_} | ";}


close FILE;
system "start /b $filename";
}

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in thread Why so slow when using Perl/Tk? by RAS230

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