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I think ikegami's reply needs some expanding:

Try 

my $format = " %10s\n" x @totalexpenses . "%10s\n" x @totalcosts;

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Re^2: printf syntac
by props (Hermit) on Sep 27, 2007 at 06:57 UTC 
    pen  WRITEFILE , ">>$time.txt" or die "write error\n";
my $format = " %10s\n" x @totalexpenses . "%10s\n" x @totalcosts;
printf WRITEFILE  $format, @totalexpenses . @totalcosts;

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    I think those two @totalexpenses . @totalcosts conflict.
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      Change
      printf WRITEFILE  $format, @totalexpenses . @totalcosts;
      back to
      printf WRITEFILE  $format, @totalexpenses, @totalcosts;

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        Hi Monks i have 2 arrays @totalexpenses = "ONE" , "TWO" , "THREE"; and @totalcosts = "1" , "2" , "3"; by executing the following code i do not get the result i wish to have in WRITEFILE filehandler. gives me: 
         
ONE
TWO
THREE
1
2
3

but what i want to look like is :
ONE 1
TWO 2
THREE 3

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        do i need another loop or a hash to form the data ? 
        open  WRITEFILE , ">>$time.txt" or die "write error\n";
my $format = " %10s\n" x @totalexpenses . "%10s\n" x @totalcosts;
printf WRITEFILE  $format, @totalexpenses , @totalcosts;
close WRITEFILE; 
}

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