Hi guys, earlier I posted a question asking how to go about formatting output to screen into columns. Got an excellent couple of responses to my question, which I've been playing with.

Unfortunately, I am having issues with one of the instances of use of this in my script... and can't for the life of me work out why this is so.

Now - the one below, is working fine :

        while (@list) 
        {
            my @row = splice(@list, 0, 4);
            format STDOUT =
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<  @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<  @<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<<<  @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
@row
.
write;
        }

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But the next one, for some reason, just prints blank space...

    while (@UACS) 
    {
        my @rows = splice(@UACS, 0, 5);
        print "@rows";
        format STDOUT =
    @<<<<<<<<<<<<  @<<<<<<<<<<<<  @<<<<<<<<<<<<  @<<<<<<<<<<<<  @<<<<<
+<<<<<<< 
    @rows
.
    write;
    }

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To confirm things *should* be ok from an input perspective, I threw in the print "@rows"; line to see what was being passed to STDOUT - and it appears as it should - see an example of two of the resulting lines below:

TECH SCANNER WEBSERVER TALKTOME TRAINING
TESTING MOBILE TECHADMIN CIRCADMIN MANAGERS

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So... to me the input seems ok, the command seems the same as the one which is working - aside from a slight change in the formatting itself. Any suggestions on where it is I'm going wrong with this?

In reply to Assistance fixing a "format" call by bobdabuilda

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