Hm. I put the code and data from your post together into a single file and it worked perfectly:

#! perl -slw use strict; #open DATA, "test2.txt" or die "Cant open file"; print "Receiptno. Consumer name Consumer no. Subdivision + Type of work Phase Cheque no. Amount"; printf "%-11s %-23s %-12s %-14s %-16s %-10s %-11s %-14.2f\n", m[ ( [0-9\.]+ )\s+ ( \S+ (?: \s \S+ )? ) \s+ ( [0-9\.]+ )\s+ ( \S+ (?: \s \S+ )? ) \s+ ( \S+ (?: \s \S+ )? ) \s+ ( \S+ (?: \s \S+ )? ) \s+ ( [0-9\.]+ ) \s+ ( \S+ (?: \s \S+ )? ) \s+ ]x while <DATA>; __DATA__ 127 Stella Somethinglong 2345 Petersburg New service Single + 23456 1330.00 128 Sandra 4567 Elm Street Replacement Three 23445 4800 +.00 129 Tessa Barry 2345 Bakersville New service Single 37456 + 1330.00

Output:

C:\test>816705 Receiptno. Consumer name Consumer no. Subdivision Type o +f work Phase Cheque no. Amount 127 Stella Somethinglong 2345 Petersburg New se +rvice Single 23456 1330.00 128 Sandra 4567 Elm Street Replac +ement Three 23445 4800.00 129 Tessa Barry 2345 Bakersville New se +rvice Single 37456 1330.00

So I suspect that your data file does not contain a final newline.

If you want to do something with the values captured, other than just print them, you'll need to assign them to some variables. A minor reworking of the code--which was posted as an example for you to learn from , not to be used verbatim--and you get:

#! perl -slw use strict; #open DATA, "test2.txt" or die "Cant open file"; print "Receiptno. Consumer name Consumer no. Subdivision + Type of work Phase Cheque no. Amount"; my $total = 0; while( <DATA> ) { my @caps = m[ ( [0-9\.]+ )\s+ ( \S+ (?: \s \S+ )? ) \s+ ( [0-9\.]+ )\s+ ( \S+ (?: \s \S+ )? ) \s+ ( \S+ (?: \s \S+ )? ) \s+ ( \S+ (?: \s \S+ )? ) \s+ ( [0-9\.]+ ) \s+ ( \S+ (?: \s \S+ )? ) \s+ ]x; printf "%-11s %-23s %-12s %-14s %-16s %-10s %-11s %-14.2f\n", @cap +s; $total += $caps[ -1 ]; } print "Total: $total"; __DATA__ 127 Stella Somethinglong 2345 Petersburg New service Single + 23456 1330.00 128 Sandra 4567 Elm Street Replacement Three 23445 4800 +.00 129 Tessa Barry 2345 Bakersville New service Single 37456 + 1330.00

Output:

C:\test>816705 Receiptno. Consumer name Consumer no. Subdivision Type o +f work Phase Cheque no. Amount 127 Stella Somethinglong 2345 Petersburg New se +rvice Single 23456 1330.00 128 Sandra 4567 Elm Street Replac +ement Three 23445 4800.00 129 Tessa Barry 2345 Bakersville New se +rvice Single 37456 1330.00 Total: 7460

Which may or may not be what you want, but even if it is, please try to understand what it is doing and modify it for your purposes rather than just coming back each time you need a change. You really should have been able to work that out for yourself. I'm unlikely to be so accomodating next time.


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In reply to Re^9: Text file processing question by BrowserUk
in thread Text file processing question by perl_seeker

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