Dearest Monks

Please excuse the very general header but I am not sure as to where the actual problem is and therefore just list my two main suspects.

I have a file with lines that need to be deleted. Each of these lines matches the pattern /^AB.*C$/. The whole code is:

open my $IN, "<", $infile
|| croak( "Could not open file $infile: $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR" );

open my $OUT, ">", $outfile
|| croak( "Could not open file $outfile: $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR" );

while ( <$IN> ){
  my $line = $_;
  chomp $line;
  if ( $line !~ /^AB.*C$/ ){
    print $OUT $line . "\n";
  }
}
close $IN;
close $OUT;

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While this is removing the lines I am looking for, it also seems to not fully write some of the not excluded lines and extends them by several thousand characters shown as '^@' in XEmacs. I am not sure what might cause this or where to start looking.


Cheers,
PerlingTheUK
Updated: I have corrected $line to be used throughout the while loop.

In reply to Writing into files and RegExp by PerlingTheUK

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