in reply to writing formatted output to file

In the directive
format STDOUT =
are you missing the ending period required by format() ?

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Re^2: writing formatted output to file
by pugsly62 (Novice) on Feb 18, 2005 at 16:19 UTC
    Yes, I was, thank you. It was in there before but I guess I deleted it in error the last time I saved the script. Anyway, I was able to get the desired output by opening my output file outside of my loop. Thanks Scott