Hi, my problem is that i have written a program which reads in a file which contains 12 columns of data, i then pass it into an array and use 'split' to divide each column into an element. my problem is that some lines in the array have a space at the start of the line, which is affecting how split divides the array! How can i remove this single whitespace character from the start of some lines. eg 

12 data data data
 12 data data data

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i have tried the following but it doesn't work! 

#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;
                
open (FH, $ARGV[0]) or die "unable to open file";

open (OUTFILE, ">$ARGV[1]");                   
my $line;
my @array; 


  while (<FH>)
  {
        $line = $_;

# remove the newline characters from variable $line;

        chomp ($line);
#       @array = ();

# remove a single whitespace from the start of lines

        foreach $line (@array)
        {
        $line =~ s/\s{1}//g;
        }

@array = split (/\s+/, $line);     
}

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help!

In reply to problems with arrays by Anonymous Monk

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