Hey all. A recent installation of SuSE 9.2 included Perl 5.8.5, which has been giving me some trouble. Some very simple code that is meant to concatenate ~1000 lines of text from an input file instead produces one line of seemingly random characters. Neither the dot operator nor the join function seem to be working properly. I thought I was going insane, so I tried the very same script on my Windows partition and it worked fine; additionally, join and . are perfectly functional in linux when I test them on shorter LISTS. The @INC array appears to include the proper paths to the Perl libraries. Can anyone suggest another configuration-type check I might make? Thanks so much.

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In reply to Problems with Perl 5.8.5 and SuSE 92. by beetle

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