Hello, I have created a small program to break up each different part of a syslog file, using regex and then rearranging them and then writing them to an output file. Example syslog line: Note, I know this isn't code.

Jan  4 12:05:21 ubuntu NetworkManager[1034]: <info> (eth0): now unmanaged

I have broken it down into 

keyword = NetworkManager,
host = ubuntu, 
datetime = Jan 4 12:05:21, 
info = <info> (eth0): now unmanaged,
portno = NetworkManager[1034]

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To write it to the file I have used this code 

print OUTPUTINTER "**". $keyword. "**". " ". $host. " ". $datetime.  "
+ ". $info. " ". $portno. "\n";    
#The line above prints the following to the file output-inter.txt

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However, when I open the file (output-input.txt). The port number is placed on a new line, even though I haven't asked it to. This only happens with the port number. This mucks up my next task as I want to bubble sort each line to put it in alphabetical order. I can't see a problem with my code. I need help, thanks

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