Hola!!! Just back from Mexico and I like saying Hola instead of hello... it's quicker :)

So, I am new to Perl... bought a book and I think I am off the right start with chomp or chop, except I am trying to remove a blank space from the front of a line.

I am simply trying to open the contents of a text file into an array and print them, except every line AFTER the first line prints with a blank space in front of it?! Is there some way of stripping the blank space away from every line in the array?

Contents of the text file:

one.

two.
three.
four.

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the code in my script:

my $messagebody = "message.txt";
open(messagebody, $messagebody) || Error ('open', 'file');
flock (messagebody, 2) || Error ('lock', 'file');

my @messagebody = <messagebody>;

print @messagebody;

sub Error {
  print "The server can't $_[0] the $_[1]: $! \n";
  exit;
}

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The file prints like this:

one.

 two.
 three.
 four.

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Is there a way to reverse what chop? (if that makes any sense...)

In reply to Getting rid of first space? by jimmybeaches

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