I made a few other posts regarding a project I am working on. All of the individual pieces seem to be working, the whole is another story. I am going to post some of the code and examples of the data files I am looking at in the hopes that someone might be able to point me in the right direction. The code is pretty messed up at this point, I just flipped it over starting with the last sub hoping that might help. When I execute the program I get endless Use of uninitialized value error msgs. I am new to Perl (painfully obvious). So any constructive critisism is very welcome. Here is the code:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w 

use strict;
use PDF::Create;

open DOM_WORK, '>/usr/spool/lpd/dom/dom.work' or die "Could not open f
+ile
because $!";
get_text();
close DOM_WORK;
get_key();

sub custinvoice {
    open DOM_PRINT, '/usr/spool/lpd/dom/dom.work';
    my @domtext = <DOM_PRINT>;
    my $pdf     = new PDF::Create(
        'filename' => 'invoice.pdf',
        'Author'   => ' STANPAK',
        'Title'    => 'Test Invoice to PDF',
        'Version'  => '1.2'
    );

    my $page = $pdf->new_page( 'MediaBox' => [ 0, 0, 792, 612 ] );
    my $f1 = $pdf->font(
        'Subtype'  => 'Type1',
        'Encoding' => 'WinAnsiEncoding',
        'BaseFont' => 'Arial'
    );
    my $image = $pdf->image('InvoiceLand.jpg');
    $page->image(
        'image'  => $image,
        'scalex' => 1,
        'scaley' => 1,
        'xpos'   => 0,
        'ypos'   => 0,
    );
    my $y = 500;

    foreach ( 1 .. $#domtext ) {
        $page->string( $f1, 10, 40, $y, $_ );
        $y = $y - 8;
    }
    $pdf->close;
    close DOM_PRINT;
}

sub get_domopts {
    print "Hello world";
    my $dom_opts = shift;
    my @dom_opts = split ( //, $dom_opts );
    my $cvtype   = $dom_opts[0];
    my $cvnumber = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 1 .. 10 ] );
    my $dtype    = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 11, 12 ] );
    my $cdir    = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 13 .. 15 ] );
    my $dp      = join ( "", $dom_opts[16] );
    my $dpform  = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 17, 18 ] );
    my $dpnc    = join ( "", $dom_opts[19] );
    my $dprntr  = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 20 .. 23 ] );
    my $dpfill  = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 24 .. 73 ] );
    my $de      = join ( "", $dom_opts[74] );
    my $deform  = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 75, 76 ] );
    my $deadd   = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 77 .. 176 ] );
    my $defill  = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 177 .. 226 ] );
    my $df      = join ( "", $dom_opts[227] );
    my $dfform  = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 228, 229 ] );
    my $dfadd   = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 230 .. 269 ] );
    my $dftnbr  = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 270 .. 283 ] );
    my $dfdev   = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 284 .. 287 ] );
    my $dffill  = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 288 .. 337 ] );
    my $dsfcntl = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 338 .. 487 ] );
    my $dx      = join ( "", $dom_opts[488] );
    my $dxtamp  = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 489 .. 490 ] );
    my $dxmot   = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 491 .. 500 ] );
    my $dxfill  = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 501 .. 650 ] );
    my $domfill = join ( "", @dom_opts[ 651 .. 750 ] );

    if ( $cvtype eq "C" && $dtype eq "I" ) {
        custinvoice( $cdir, $dp, $dpform, $dpnc, $dprntr );
}
sub get_domcf {
            my $key = shift;
            open DOM_CF, '/u/ds2/r61/domcf.dat'
              or die "Control file unavailable $!";
            my @dom_cf = <DOM_CF>;
            while (@dom_cf) {
                if (/$key/) {
                }
                my $dom_opts = ($');
                get_domopts($dom_opts);
                close DOM_CF;
            }

            sub get_key {
                open DOM_TEXT, '/usr/spool/lpd/dom/dom.work'
                  or die "Could not open work
    file  $!\n";
                while (<DOM_TEXT>) {
                    if (/\*([^*]+)\*/) {
                        my $key = $1;
                        close DOM_TEXT;
                        get_domcf($key);
                    }
                }

                sub get_text {
                    while (<>) {
                        tr/\x0c-\x0d//d;
                        print DOM_WORK $_;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
 }


here is the data I am reading in from STDIN and writing to /usr/spool/
+lpd/dom.work:
*C100102    I R61* yadd yadd yadda           
This is a bunch of data ...yadda yadda yadda 
This is a bunch of data ...yadda yadda yadda 
This is a bunch of data ...yadda yadda yadda 
This is a bunch of data ...yadda yadda yadda 
This is a bunch of data ...yadda yadda yadda 
This is a bunch of data ...yadda yadda yadda 
This is a bunch of data ...yadda yadda yadda 
This is a bunch of data ...yadda yadda yadda 
This is a bunch of data ...yadda yadda yadda 
This is a bunch of data ...yadda yadda yadda 
This is a bunch of data ...yadda yadda yadda 
This is a bunch of data ...yadda yadda yadda 



Here is the data I am reading in from /u/ds2/r61/domcf.dat:
C100102    I R61C100102    I R61Y3 1LP2                               
+          
          YPFaseidas@megalink.net                                     
+          
                                                                      
+          
   YLS68 Bridge Street, Suffield, CT          668-3001      F04       
+          
CTED       I R61CTED       I R61YI 2DOM                               
+          
          YPS                                                         
+          
                                                                      
+          
   YS 68 BRIDGE STREET                        668-3001      F04
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Thanks in advance---bring the pain !

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