in reply to Use perl to do direction matching
Instead of:
my $nline = "\n"; my $comma = ","; ... print OUTPUT $column[4],$comma,$column[5],$comma,$column[7],$comm +a,$column[8],$comma,$A,$comma,$B,$comma,$nline;
use:
# $/ = "\n" # Input RS already defined $, = ","; ... print OUTPUT $column[4],$column[5],$column[7],$column[8],$A,$B; print $/; # or use 'say' as it was said.
or interpolate:
print OUTPUT "$column[4],$column[5],$column[7],$column[8],$A,$B\n +";
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