Thanks for all the help.... I am almost there with this one. When I get down to the individual histories and need to parse each line how do I handle missing data? For example: 
                    AP040003EZ9891783    61125    N        BX    108.0
+0000   03196             00000   D    Y     B

                    BP041303DD554        009J0    N        BX      8.7
+5000   03168       62    00000        Y     W

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I was trying to split on space and then populate an array, but then the colums are messed up.... If a value is missing I get errors like x6 being saved in to the spot for x5. Thanks again, -Shawn

In reply to Re^2: Parsing large text file with perl by maida
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