I have a print "etc" on the line before writing to the file that looks like that on my test script. "6scoreResinuser"
Maybe my < signs are backwards? And why is my rep going down? lol
Comment on Re^3: Writing a hash of two variables to a file
Most likely your rep is going down because you didn't specify the problem very well. To get good help you need a good question. Fuzzy questions generally get fuzzy answers as people try to guess what you may actually want.