I'm not sure how your solution is to work with what I need to do though. (Probably because of my lack of understanding with regards to substr).

The way the code reads now is: 
$description =~ s/^(\s+)?$//sg;
$description =~ s/\n/ /sg;
while ($description)
{
    $f_desc .= "T".(substr($description,0,75) = "")."\n";
}
print $f_desc;

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However, when given a description like the following (which is what I am working with) it doesn't come out quite right. 
2001/08/28 10:15:54 AM auser

08/28/01 10:15:53     auser
   PostalCode.24th floor. MachineID,  printer keeps jamming (A person'
+s Name). Lexmark optra s1250.


2001/08/28 10:17:57 AM auser
PostalCode.24th floor. MachineID,  printer keeps jamming (A person's N
+ame). Lexmark optra s1250.

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The above code makes it read like: 
T floor. MachineID,  printer keeps jamming (A person's Name). Lexmark 
+optra s125
T0.   2001/08/28 10:17:57 AM auser PostalCode.24th floor. MachineID,  
+printer kee
Tps jamming (A person's Name). Lexmark optra s1250.
T

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So it looks like I'm missing the first line, and I'm not sure why :-)
UPDATE: Japhy got it. That's why he's the saint and I'm the lowly whatever I am now :-)

In reply to Re: Re: substr to split lines? by the_slycer
in thread substr to split lines? by the_slycer

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