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You can use pack:
use strict; use warnings; open(A,">Result.txt"); while (<DATA>){ chomp; my ($one,$two,$three) = split /\s+/; print A pack ("A10",$one); print A pack ("A7",$two); print A pack ("A8",$three); print A "\n"; } close(A); __DATA__ The Early Year Five New Swine
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