note AnomalousMonk <blockquote> Now that I have that under control... </BLOCKQUOTE> If 'that' refers to the lack code tags in your OP, the situation is still out of control. A <c> <code> </C> tag is closed by a <c> </code> </C> tag, not by a <code> </c> </CODE> tag. Please see [id://674668]. Please check the effects of your changes. Printing to a file usually involves supplying an output file handle (see [doc://open]) to the [doc://print] statement. E.g.: <c> my $filename = 'file.name';</c> <c> open my $fh_out, '>', $filename or die "opening '$filename': $!";</c> <c> my $something_to_output_to_file = your_process();</c> <c> print $fh_out "here is something for the file \n";</c> <c> print $fh_out $something_to_output_to_file;</c> <c> print $fh_out "that's all, folks! \n";</c> <c> close $fh_out or die "closing '$filename': $!";</c> Please consider re-reading the answers you have been given in this and related threads. Please consider using lexical filehandles (as in the example given above). See also [doc://autodie]. 993499 994031