Thanks, in situation 2 it worked fine, I could start a new page by setting $- to 0 after a certain run so no overlapping sort of thing is involved. unfortunately for the first case, this doesn't seem to be the answer, I have tried it over and over, it gives me blank command shell when I did move the format definition after the select(), and the file created therefore would still be blank, I seem to not be able to associate to select the filehandle in a proper manner, another error I get is 
undefined format "FILE" called at Program.pl ...

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when I explicitly associate to write() the filehandle "FILE", there is something else which I am not noticing apparently...so still this situation is open for the experiences of Perl Monks to tackle it. Thanks for everyone in advance.
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In reply to Re^2: Writing to a file using Formats by biohisham
in thread Writing to a file using Formats by biohisham

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