johngg@shiraz:~/perl/Monks$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -MList::MoreUtils=mesh -E ' my $delim = qq{\x01}; my @colHdrs = qw{ Name Sex Age Job }; my @data = ( [ qw{ Fred M 27 Janitor } ], [ qw{ Mary F 31 Researcher } ], ); my $outFile = q{spw11101656.out}; open my $outFH, q{>}, $outFile or die qq{open: > $outFile: $!\n}; foreach my $raDataLine ( @data ) { say $outFH join $delim, mesh @colHdrs, @{ $raDataLine }; } close $outFH or die qq{close: > $outFile: $!\n};' johngg@shiraz:~/perl/Monks$ hexdump -C spw11101656.out 00000000 4e 61 6d 65 01 46 72 65 64 01 53 65 78 01 4d 01 |Name.Fred.Sex.M.| 00000010 41 67 65 01 32 37 01 4a 6f 62 01 4a 61 6e 69 74 |Age.27.Job.Janit| 00000020 6f 72 0a 4e 61 6d 65 01 4d 61 72 79 01 53 65 78 |or.Name.Mary.Sex| 00000030 01 46 01 41 67 65 01 33 31 01 4a 6f 62 01 52 65 |.F.Age.31.Job.Re| 00000040 73 65 61 72 63 68 65 72 0a |searcher.| 00000049