In the code below I'm using the join function to make one variable that contains $timeHour, seperated by :, and $timeMinute. Then I'm reading from file fileTimes to fill the array @times with previously stored times. Then I'm putting(unshift)the joined variable I just made into the array of @times and printing the updated list back into fileTimes.
My question is this: Whenever I 'cat fileTimes' the output is always on two different lines like so:
12
:34
how do I make the file take it and display it like this:
12:34
I've tried it with strings and it works fine, but not with this. Thanks! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

my @times;
my $timeDisplay;
my $timeMinute = `date '+%M'`;
my $timeHour = `date '+%H'`;

       $timeDisplay = join (":", "$timeHour", "$timeMinute");

        open(IN1, '<', 'fileTimes'); #fills @times with data in fileTi
+mes 
          while(my $line = <IN1>) {
                    chomp $line;
                    unshift(@times, $line);
                               }
        close(IN1);

unshift(@times, $timeDisplay); #puts in new time to queue

        open(FILE, ">fileTimes");
          foreach my $i (@times) { #prints back into fileTimes to upda
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                print FILE "$i\n";
                                 }
         close(FILE);

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