RE: RE: Re: script adding spaces into a file for no reason...

My solution, @{[join("",@text)]} does not return an array in this case. (Look at pg.239-241 of Effective Perl Programming for more examples of using this construct). It does use the anonymous array construct and the array dereferencing construct, but the net result is to interpret the code inside the brackets in whatever context it would have occured elsewhere outside of the constuct and the here-doc. So, because "join" returns a scalar, so does my code. It's just a quick and dirty way to interpolate a piece of code inside a larger print statement.

Of course, there are many other ways you could accomplish the same thing, I just happen to like this because it keeps the amount of variable assignment to a minimum.

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RE: RE: RE: Re: script adding spaces into a file for no reason... by Anonymous Monk on May 25, 2000 at 00:09 UTC
Thanks to everyone for their help. It's working now. Here's the core file saving code for your reference. It removes unncessary line returns, etc. `if (defined $query->param('Submit')) { open NEWNEWS, "> cgi/news.txt" \|\| die "Cannot open file: $!"; $result = $query->param('content'); $result =~ s/\r//g; print NEWNEWS $result; close(NEWNEWS); print '<p>Saved your changes.</p>'; $query->delete('Submit'); }` [download] JoeG	[reply] [d/l]

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RE: RE: RE: Re: script adding spaces into a file for no reason...
by Anonymous Monk on May 25, 2000 at 00:09 UTC

if (defined $query->param('Submit')) {
  open NEWNEWS, "> cgi/news.txt" || die "Cannot open file: $!";
  $result = $query->param('content');
  $result =~ s/\r//g;
  print NEWNEWS $result;
  close(NEWNEWS);
  print '<p>Saved your changes.</p>';
  $query->delete('Submit');
}
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