The code below is the begining of a graphical poll script I am writing. It is working well from the command line so far. My question is this: The output file has linebreaks whose origin is a mystery to me. Can anyone tell me why the results look like this:
purple
:2:blue
:1:red
:2

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Is this some sort of default column width formatting?
TIA
jg
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

#use Fcntl ':flock';  # import LOCK_* constants

use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser /;

my $q = CGI->new();

######### CONFIG #############
my $results_file ="c:\\windows\\desktop\\survey.poll";
my (%data, @file);
##############################
print "Color choice: red, blue, or purple?\n";
my $input = <STDIN>;
chomp $input;

get_data();

exit;





sub get_data {
    if (-e $results_file){
        open (FH, "+< $results_file") or die "where's the damn file? :
+ $!";
    } else {
        open (FH, "> $results_file") or die "where's the damn file? : 
+$!";
    }
    #flock (FH,LOCK_EX) or die "Couldn't flock: $!";

    $_ = <FH>;
    chomp;
    if ($_) {
        my @file= split(/:/);
        %data = @file;
    }

    $data{$input}++;

    seek FH, 0, 0;
    truncate (FH,0) or die "Can't truncate: $!";
    @file = join(":",%data);
    print FH @file;
    #flock(FH,LOCK_UN);  #unlock the file

    close FH or die "close damn you : $!";
}

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