Hello, I have a question that I hope that you good people can help me with. In my script I am pulling a list of categories from a data file for use in a flat db file. 
     open(FILE, "$catdir/categories.dat") || &error_message("Can't fin
+d data file - $catdir/categories.dat.");
     @list = <FILE>;
     close(FILE);
    @list= sort(@list);

     $numlist = @list;
     print "<select size=1 name='catlisting'>";
     for ($a = 0; $a < $numlist; $a ++)
             {
             ($one, $nochop) = split(/\|/, $list[$a]);
             print "<option value='$one'>$one</option>";
             }
 print "</select>";
 close(FILE);

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Dat File: 
Categories
Accounting
Attorneys
Automobile-Sales
Automobile-Services
Banks

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Everything works fine until it gets added to the flat data file. Anything following the "catlisting" get sent to the next line. Any suggestions? thanks, lis

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