Incorrectly adding a newline character

pimperator has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This is my tab delimited input file

Name \t Street \t Address

This is how I want my output file to look like

Street \t Address \t Address

(yes duplicate the next two columns) My output file looks like this instead

Street \t Address

\n \t Address
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What is going on with perl? This is my code.

open (IN, $ARGV[0]);

open (OUT, ">output.txt");
while ($line = <IN>){

    chomp $line;
    @line=split/\t/,$line;

    $line[2]=~s/\n//g;
   print OUT $line[1]."\t".$line[2]."\t".$line[2]."\n";
}

close( OUT);
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Re: Incorrectly adding a newline character by McA (Priest) on Oct 08, 2013 at 05:00 UTC
Hi, if you're on UNIX and have a text file which lines ends with \r\n the `chomp` only throws the \n away, but not \r. Have a look at your file with `hexdump -C`. Regards McA	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Incorrectly adding a newline character by vinoth.ree (Monsignor) on Oct 08, 2013 at 04:38 UTC
Try Chomping an array If you chomp an array, it will remove a newline from the end of every element in the array So, try the blow code and tell what happens! `open (IN, $ARGV[0]); open (OUT, ">output.txt"); while ($line = <IN>){ chomp $line; @line=split/\t/,$line; chomp(@line); print OUT $line[1]."\t".$line[2]."\t".$line[2]."\n"; } close( OUT);` [download] *All is well*	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Incorrectly adding a newline character by Genis200 (Initiate) on Oct 08, 2013 at 04:34 UTC
The code seems to be fine...Creating a test tab delimited input file and using the code you have here, there is no issue...I get `Street \t Address \t Address` [download] Perhaps check your file and Perl version, maybe there's something you're missing.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Incorrectly adding a newline character by Laurent_R (Canon) on Oct 08, 2013 at 06:02 UTC
Your address field has a trailing new line character (the end of your input line), you need to remove it with the chomp function. It would be actually be two characters, new line and carriage return, if your file was built under Windows, but chomp will take care of that (the exception being with a mix of 2 OSes, for example if wou created your file under Windows and use it under Unix, in which case a regular expression will be needed).	[reply]
Re: Incorrectly adding a newline character by Lennotoecom (Pilgrim) on Oct 08, 2013 at 07:58 UTC
`while(<DATA>){ print "$1\t$2\t$2\n" if /\t(.+)\t(.+)$/; } __DATA__ a first street 1A b second street 2B c third street 3C d fourth street 4D` [download]	[reply] [d/l]