Hi all, I use perl to view a flat file using table in html but it really urly if some file is blank so i thinh i should replace a blank field with an n/a so if a comment1 field and comment2 field is blank then put n/a in those field but it does not work. Please help me, here is my stuppid code 
open (DATA,"PAD.txt") || die ("Can't Open data File \n");
@data=<DATA>;
close DATA;

&header_response;
$x=0;
foreach $line (@data) {
    
    $x++;
    ($Router, $itemgroup, $itemid, $SFC, $LogOp,  $timestamp, $ncdescr
+iption, $nccode, $operator, $comment1, $comment2)=split(/\|/,$line);
    
    if (($comment1 =~ " ") && ($comment2 =~ " ")) {
    
    print "<TR><TD>$x</TD><TD>$Router</TD><TD>$itemgroup</TD><TD>$item
+id</TD><TD>$SFC</TD><TD>$LogOp</TD><TD>$timestamp</TD><TD>$ncdescript
+ion</TD><TD>$nccode</TD><TD>$operator</TD><TD>n/a</TD><TD>n/a</TD></T
+R> \n";
    
}

elsif (($comment1 != " ") && ($comment2 =~ " ")) {
    
print "<TR><TD>$x</TD><TD>$Router</TD><TD>$itemgroup</TD><TD>$itemid</
+TD><TD>$SFC</TD><TD>$LogOp</TD><TD>$timestamp</TD><TD>$ncdescription<
+/TD><TD>$nccode</TD><TD>$operator</TD><TD>$comment1</TD><TD>n/a</TD><
+/TR> \n";
        
}

    else  {

print "<TR><TD>$x</TD><TD>$Router</TD><TD>$itemgroup</TD><TD>$itemid</
+TD><TD>$SFC</TD><TD>$LogOp</TD><TD>$timestamp</TD><TD>$ncdescription<
+/TD><TD>$nccode</TD><TD>$operator</TD><TD>$comment1</TD><TD>$comment2
+</TD></TR> \n";
    
}
}
&footer_response;

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