perlquestion rajsai28 Hi, '|' field delimeter. I am writing the input to the file by using a field delimiter. when i see the output file, The output file looks like( where the output scattered on the more than one line: <c> 00002|GR_TESTING_Release|00001|0000997|3500243| 5909|20121115|2012111|TESTING |CHECK </c> output: <c> 00002|TESTING|00001|0000004|0000006|0001|11111111||11111111|ABCDEFH||||9999999999|ABCDEF|ABCDK|ABCD|ABCDEF |||||||||||||||||||||0001-01|AB|TESTING|||||||AB|ABC|ABC|CHECK </c> but i want file ouput as below: In single line. <c> 00002|GR_TESTING_Release|00001|0000997|3500243|5909|20121115|2012111|TESTING|CHECK </c> expected: <c> 00002|TESTING|00001|0000004|0000006|0001|11111111||11111111|ABCDEFH||||9999999999|ABCDEF|ABCDK|ABCDEF|ABCD|||||||||||||||||||||5909-01|IW|ALDEA|||||||AB|ABC|ABC|||||||||||CHECK </c>