Yep OK, Sorry for the delay I had to pick family up of the plane ... The code offered creates afile indeed it does ... but It chokes on multiple files I think ... I get this result 
Smitty@smittytech:~/scripts/perl/dl_parser> perl lineJumper.pl /home/S
+mitty/scripts/perl/dl_parser/down/*
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at lineJumper.pl line 12,
+ <> chunk 478.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at lineJumper.pl line 12,
+ <> chunk 478.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at lineJumper.pl line 12,
+ <> chunk 478.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at lineJumper.pl line 12,
+ <> chunk 478.

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which I think is the script not liking multiple files to parse ?? ..

In reply to Re^6: Parsing Data logger files ... by RedTussock
in thread Parsing Data logger files ... by RedTussock

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