- I'm basically using a PHP include to put the contents of a .txt file (in this case u_texas.txt) into an editable textarea. When the user makes changes to the textarea and submits it, the new text replaces the old text in the file.
- So far so good.
- The problem comes in when you go back and edit the file again. Every time, everywhere there is a new line, it adds another.
(e.g)
startsbecomesbecomes
1
2
3
 1

2

3
 1


2


3
and so on and so on.

I'm assuming this is caused by the \n characters being added on to each line of the STDIN, but I don't think chomp works in this case, at least I haven't been able to make it work.

This is the perl script which updates the file by recieving two form parameters; a file name, and the actual text that was in the text area. 

#! c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -w

use strict;
use CGI;

my $query = CGI->new();
my @names = $query->param;
my $file_name = $query->param( $names[0] );
my $file_path = '../htdocs/safe/internship/u_texas.txt';
my $new_text = $query->param( $names[1]);

chomp(my $success = open OUT, ">$file_path");  
# test for open omitted for space concerns
print OUT $new_text;
close OUT;

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How does one perform a chomp on each line of text as it comes in, is that even possible, or am I just thinking about this the completely wrong way and if so, how should I be going about this process.

Thanks,
Chris (Boston,USA)

Edit by dws to add <code> tags

In reply to Extra (\n)'s in the file I'm updating? by cdguitar01

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