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Please show us your perl1.pl script inside <code> and </code> tags so we can see where you are going wrong. As for working on a multi-line file, calculate the offsets, open your file then do something like

while ( <$inputFH> )
{
    foreach my $offset ( reverse @cums[ 1 .. $#cums ] )
    }
        substr $_, $offset, 0, q{-};
    }
    print;
}
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I hope this moves you forward.

Update: Code modified to replace for statement modifier with an explicit loop, thanks choroba.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re^4: Adding a TAB after a certain ammount of characters by johngg
in thread Adding a TAB after a certain ammount of characters by biancoari

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