in reply to String concatenation issues with 00?

G'day bobdabuilda,

The code and output you've posted do not match. Running the exact code you posted, I get this output: 

o 200806050852 b7199767 b24211012077030 200902232359
o 200806050852 b7199767 b24211012077030 20090223235900
o:20080605085200:b7199767:b24211012077030:20090223235900
o 201103251457 b6235734 b2421100997663 201204022359
o 201103251457 b6235734 b2421100997663 20120402235900
o:20110325145700:b6235734:b2421100997663:20120402235900
...

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Presumably, your dodgy OUTPUT: ... was produced by other code we've not seen.

Given the type of data you're working with, I recommend you take a look at Text::CSV.

— Ken

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Re^2: String concatenation issues with 00?
by james28909 (Deacon) on Nov 19, 2015 at 03:07 UTC

    The output is like that because foreach line of <DATA> he is printing it three different times. Go ahead and remove the first two print statements and behold the desired output!

     EDIT: nevermind. Maybe he is calling the wrong script. I do it all the time! Ill copy a script to another directory and make updates to it, then save and run it while still in the other directory, and wonder why the output never changes haha
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      Between reading your response and replying, you've updated your post. That's fine but just to clear up any misunderstanding:

      I was demonstrating that the posted code did not produce the posted output. In fact, it did produce the desired output (along with a couple of test print lines).

      — Ken

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        Yep, understood :)
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