Hello, it was whitespace characters causing everything after the Qty figure to appear on the second line.
Don't know why the code did not work earlier. Fixed the second line prob using this

open PL, 'pvclength.txt' or die "Cant open file";
     
$pvc_l=<PL>;

$pvc_l =~ s/^\s+//; 
$pvc_l =~ s/\s+$//;
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Also for the alignment will look up on sprintf. Thank you everyone for your comments and sorry for the delay in
replying.

perl_seeker