G'day tarunmudgal4u,

Without knowing exactly how the data is generated, it's a little difficult to give a clear answer on how to format it. While you do say there's message/status pairs, that doesn't address 'Mapped to V drive' (line 2) which doesn't have a status nor the source or importance of the blank lines you show.

In the code below, I've put the data you've posted into an Array of Arrays and processed that. You should be able to adapt the technique I've used for your needs. 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my @messages = (
    ['Mapping a drive to build machine 10.211.32.254..', 'done'],
    ['Mapped to V drive'],
    [],
    ['Deleting TestHarness_LUA directory..', 'done'],
    [],
    ['Deleting TestHarness_LUA-distribution.zip file..', 'done'],
    [],
    ['Copying TestHarness_LUA-distribution.zip from mapped V drive..',
+ 'done'],
);

for my $msg (@messages) {
    for (scalar @$msg) {
        $_ == 0 && do { print "\n"; last };
        $_ == 1 && do { print_long_line($msg->[0]); print "\n"; last }
+;
        $_ == 2 && do { print_long_line($msg->[0]); print "$msg->[1]\n
+" };
    }
}

sub print_long_line {
    print join "\n" => map { sprintf "%-55s" => $_ } shift =~ /(.{1,52
+})\b\s*/g;
}

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Output:

$ pm_format_long_line_output.pl
Mapping a drive to build machine 10.211.32.254         done
Mapped to V drive                                      

Deleting TestHarness_LUA directory                     done

Deleting TestHarness_LUA-distribution.zip file         done

Copying TestHarness_LUA-distribution.zip from mapped   
V drive                                                done

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-- Ken

In reply to Re: Console Output Formatting Help Required by kcott
in thread Console Output Formatting Help Required by tarunmudgal4u

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