Hi! I am looking for way to reduce the following code, a better way, a perl way. Any ideas?
while ( my ( $Site, $Description, $Part_Number, $Part_Serial_Number, $Qty, $RMA_Number, $Customer_Contac, $RMA_Date, $Part_Rec ) = $sth->fetchrow()) { # while ( $data ) = $sth->fetchrow()) { $l = length( $Site ); if( $l != 5 ) { $s = substr( " ", 0, 5 - $l ); $Site .= $s; } $l = length( $Description ); if( $l > 15 ) { $Description = substr( $Description, 0, 14 ); }elsif( $l != 15 ) { $s = substr( " ", 0, 14 - $l ); $Description .= $s; } $l = length( $Part_Number ); if( $l > 15 ) { $Part_Number = substr( $Part_Number, 0, 14 ); }elsif( $l != 15 ) { $s = substr( " ", 0, 14 - $l ); $Part_Number .= $s; } $l = length( $Part_Serial_Number ); if( $l > 10 ) { $Part_Serial_Number = substr( $Part_Serial_Number, 0, 9 ); }elsif( $l != 1 ) { $s = substr( " ", 0, 9 - $l ); $Part_Serial_Number .= $s; } $l = length( $Qty ); if( $l > 3 ) { $Qty = substr( $Qty, 0, 2 ); }elsif( $l != 1 ) { $s = substr( " ", 0, 3 - $l ); $Qty .= $s; } if( $Site !~ /test/i ) { $_ = "$Site|$Description |$Part_Number |$Part_Serial_Number |$Qty |$RMA_Number |$Customer_Contact |$RMA_ Date |$Part_ Rec\n"; # print $_; print FO $_; } } Thanks, Jerry