A lot of what i've been writing in my attempts to learn perl have used
the `date` command. When i try to write it to a file as part
of a longer string it always causes a /n after it so I have been putting
it at the end of the line. Such as 
$today = `date +%D`;
$reg_data = "$handle|$crpw|$first_name}|$last_name|$email_addy|0|$toda
+y";
open trf, ">/tmp/.$handle";
print trf $reg_data;
close trf;

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This works fine but what if I want to use more than one instance of it and
keep it all on one line?? Secondly will every system call do this?

In reply to avoiding newlines when using system calls. by Zecho

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