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Thank you all for your solutions. I think rharsh's will work best for what I am doing now. I think my next step in learning Perl will be to discover how these hashes work. Thank you all again.

Thanks, but that won't work because neither sorted_data.txt or unique_data.txt exist when the program starts. The file print_job_output.txt does exist before the program runs. When each program runs alone (ie: split it where it says ##extract the unique one now) they run fine.

I am somewhat new to Perl, but I have worked with batch files for a long time. I have two programs that I usually call from a batch file. The first sorts data and the second extracts the unique items. I would like to combine these into one script, but I am getting errors when the second OPEN...