I have a script that prints out a string of values which are pipe delimited. waht i want to do is is if $f3 field equals something, like the letter C I want it to print out the xout. However if the $f3 is not populated with any value, if $f3 defined and not equal to nothing I want N and G to be printed out in the $f5 and F7 fileds respectively. 


#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my ($f1, $f2, $f3, $f4, $f5, $f6, $f7) = ("") x 7;
#$f3="C";
my $xout = "$system|$f2|$f3|$f4|$f5|$f6|$f7|\n";
if ( defined $f3 && $f3 ne '' ) {
    print $xout;
    print "\$f3 is defined \n";
} else {
    my $f5 = "N";
    my $f7 = "G";
    print $xout;
    print "the 7th and 8th blocks should have values \n";
}

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The output is going to look like this 

 


    host1||C|||||
    host2||C|||||
    host3||||N||G|
    host4||C|||||
    host5||||N||G|

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In reply to Augmented pipe delimited output by MrTEE

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