Dear Monks, I am very new to perl and have run into a weird problem. I have a comma seperated text file that I split each line into an array (based on the comma). I modify a few values in the array, and then print it to the screen and a text file. when I print it to the screen, the resulting lines look fine, but when I print it to a text file, each value in the list has a space added to the front of it. I could always post process this and fix it up after the fact, but I really want to understand what I am doing wrong. Please Help! 
 
$filein = "sample.txt";
open(FILE, $filein) or die "Couldn't open file $file";

while (<FILE>) {
    $line = $_;
    (@values) = split ( /(,)/ , $line);
    
    foreach $value(@values) {
        if ($value =~ /-\d{2}/) {$value =~ s/-/0/}
        elsif ($value =~ /-\d{3}/) {$value =~ s/-//}
    }
    push (@newfile,@values);
    print @values;
}
$filein=~ s/.txt/.tst/;
open (NEW, ">$filein");
print NEW "@newfile";
close (NEW);

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