Hi,

The code I've below doesn't seem to work. What it attempts to do is read from a file (input.txt) and then format the input and print the formatted text to a file:

# input.txt contains two fields delimited by a pipe
open (FH, "input.txt") or die $!;

# Example
# gary|1
# mary|10
# colin|2
# heidi seah|0

my ($name, $logins);

open (FH2, ">formatted.txt") or die $!;

format thisformat =
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<
$name                 $logins
.

while(my $line = <FH>) {
   chomp $line;
   ($name, $logins) = split /\|/, $line;
   print FH2 thisformat;
   #print FH2 "$name, $logins\n";
}

close FH2;
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I've no idea how to bind the format to the printing part. Can someone please enlighten me?