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It looks like you got what you were looking for, but in the future, for formatting text into tables you should check out Perl6::Form. Here's a simple (recycled) example that would get you started:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Perl6::Form;

my @barcodes=qw/8129348 2354234 234234534 21342134 23453421/;   
my @prices = qw/625.50 626.35 234.23 546.54 3245.45/;
my @quants = qw/2 2 34 4 6/;
my @values = qw/21345 345345 345345 3453 34534/;

my $total = 0;
foreach(@values){$total+=$_};


print form
' ============================================================',
'|                       Goods in Stock                      |',
'|===========================================================|',
'|   Barcode   |     Price     |   Quantity  |     Value     |',
'|-------------+---------------+-------------+---------------|',
'| {[[[[[[[[[} | {$]]]]]].[[[} | {]]]]]]]]]} | {$]]]]]]].[[[}|',
   \@barcodes,    \@prices,        \@quants,     \@values,
'|===========================================================|',
'|                       Total Value In Stock  {$]]]]]]].[[[}|',
                                               $total,
' =========================================================== ',
;
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Produces:

 ===========================================================
|                       Goods in Stock                      |
|===========================================================|
|   Barcode   |     Price     |   Quantity  |     Value     |
|-------------+---------------+-------------+---------------|
| 8129348     |     $625.5    |           2 |    $21345.0   |
| 2354234     |     $626.35   |           2 |   $345345.0   |
| 234234534   |     $234.23   |          34 |   $345345.0   |
| 21342134    |     $546.54   |           4 |     $3453.0   |
| 23453421    |    $3245.45   |           6 |    $34534.0   |
|===========================================================|
|                       Total Value In Stock    $750022.0   |
 ===========================================================
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In reply to Re: Help with formatting a text file by moklevat
in thread Help with formatting a text file by noobee

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