I need help with my $date var.  I want it to print at the sixth printf
position.  Can someone help?

Pat Gorden-Ozgul
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Input:

18033|18033|89.00|1|182682|20021011|89.00|1|0|0000070001|19724|FIRM|
03046|03046|135.93|1|67579558|20020927|135.93|1|0|0000070097|90081|FIRM|
08830|08830|88.38|1|182824|20021017|154.26|2|0|0000070001|12435|FIRM|
03121|03121|558.81|1|182985|20021022|558.81|1|0|0000070001|15139|FIRM|
04500|04500|61.89|1|182988|20021023|61.89|1|0|0000070001|17893|FIRM|

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Parse input from invoice file and split into three output files
# PGO March 2003
# must run inv_sed against datafile (file9.final) to remove $

# my $date = `date +%Y%m%d`;
my $datafile = "invshrt";
open DATA, "< $datafile" || die "Can't open data file: $datafile";

while(<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    my $date = `date +%Y%m%d`;
    my @data = split('\|');
    printf "%-2s%-16s%-8s%-10s%-10s%-7s%-11s%-154s%-7s\n",
        "", $data[4], $data[5], $data[9], "", "", $date, "", $data[6];
}
close DATA;

exit 1;





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