Hi all, So I have this code which takes input and output file from command line, then writes a certain output to the output file (Only the relevant portion shown here due to privacy issues): 
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use autodie;
    
    # check that two arguments have been passed
    die "usage: $0 input output\n" unless @ARGV == 2;
    
    my $infile = shift;
    my $outfile = shift;
    
    open my $in, "<", $infile;
    open(DATA,$in);
    open my $out, ">", $outfile;
    
    ins split /,\s*/ for <DATA>;
    print $out "%-4s: %20s,   %-8s %6s\n", $_->[0], qq($_->[0]$_->[3])
+, $_->[2], $group{$_->[2]};
    
    close $in;
    close $out;

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The problem is that it isnt writing anything to the output file. Due to certain reasons I want to read in the input file in <DATA> format, so that cant be done away with. Please help

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