Hello again! I built a page for my teacher that loads the contents of a file into a textarea in a form on a web page so he can edit some links from any browser. If the text file is empty, the script that displays the links jumps to a subroutine that says, "no links at this time"

This is only happening when I delete the contents of the file on the server. If I do it by clearing the contents of the textarea through a brower and pass them to the script, there is always 1 blank character.

I am still new to all of this, but am reading a book right now and trying things like chop, chomp, truncate.. ?

Am I close? Or have I gone completely mad?!

Here is the code that writes what was in the textarea to file: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use CGI ':standard';

my $list;
my @changes = param('tellmessage');

open(FILE, ">eetnlinks.txt") || die "Can't open file!";
  flock(FILE, 2) || die "Can't lock file!";
  #truncate(FILE,0);
    foreach $list (@changes) {
      chomp ($list);
      print FILE "$list\n";    
    }    
close(FILE);

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In reply to Always leaving one space in file by Anonymous Monk

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