Text-FixedWidth Easy OO manipulation of fixed width text files. use Text::FixedWidth; my $fw = new Text::FixedWidth; $fw->set_attributes(qw( fname undef %10s lname undef %-10s points 0 %04d )); $fw->parse(string => ' JayHannah 0003'); $fw->get_fname; # Jay $fw->get_lname; # Hannah $fw->get_points; # 0003 $fw->set_fname('Chuck'); $fw->set_lname('Norris'); $fw->set_points(17); $fw->string; # ' ChuckNorris 0017' INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Text::FixedWidth You can also look for information at: https://metacpan.org/module/Text::FixedWidth COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2008-2013 Jay Hannah This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.