Hello sar123,

You just need to move the line:

$/ = "\n+";

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to before the line:

my @file = <$fh>;

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so that the input record separator (which tells Perl what your “lines” are) is in effect when the file is read in. Then the script works as expected:

use warnings;
use strict;
use diagnostics;

$/ = "\n+";
my @file = <DATA>;
chomp (@file);
print "@file\n";

__DATA__

xabcd a1
+b1
+b2
+b3
+b4
+b5 abcd
xcdef c1
+d1
+d2
+d3
+d4
+cdef

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Output:

16:14 >perl 1042_SoPW.pl

xabcd a1 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 abcd
xcdef c1 d1 d2 d3 d4 cdef


16:14 >

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Chomp in perl by Athanasius
in thread Chomp in perl by sar123

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