Forrest Payne wrote:

> I create a lot of reports with Perl formats.  When view them with
> notepad, wordpad or word I see equals signs scatterd throughout the
> report.  Below is an example.  This not text my program is creating. 
> When I send this report directly to the printer the "equals" signs are
> not printed.  It appears that some weird characters are showing when
> I view it online that the printer ignores.
> Has anyone run into this?  

No.  I never use formatted writes.

>                            Do you know how to stop it?

Quit doing whatever you're doing wrong.

Seriously, either quit using formatted writes and switch to (s)printf
or create a minuscule test case that fails and post the failing script
in it's entirety.  Is there any email involved with the data ?  Quoted
printable format can introduce ='s if not properly removed on the other
end.

Make sure you start it with
        use strict;
        use warnings;

> See the

We could have read this properly if you had posted in plain text (fixed
width fonts) rather than HTML.  Then it would line up like it's supposed
to :

> 41A10045 =      49152     19060     19023     51200      30720
> 42A10000        14675     15068      3215     51200      46080
> 42A10001        13107      3328      3279     51200      46080
> 42A10006        14675     15043      3110     51200      46080
> 42A10007         5120     15040      3213     51200      46080
> 42A10009       168832     45320     44660     51200       5120
> ************************************************************************=*
> ***        T S M   C D L  C O M P A R E   R E P O R T      Page: 2     ***
> ***                                                                    ***
> *** Program: CDLTapetoTSMCompare     Date: 05/26/2005   Time: 18:50:14 ***
> **************************************************************************
> 42A10015       130517     49832     33054     51200      15360
> 42A10025        14675     15052      3216     51200      46080
> 42A10027        40448      9240      8849     51200      40960
> 42A10028        53248     11210     10844     51200      35840 


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