Dear fello monks,

There is a strange behaviour with the write() function, that is not documented: a little program would be the best way to explain 

#!/usr/bin/perl

format STDOUT =
@<<<<@<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<
$a, $b, $c
.

$a = "a";
$b = "b";
$c = "c            ";
write(STDOUT);

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I'd expect something like this to be printed: 

'a    b    c            '

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What I get instead is

'a b c'

In the documentation there's no advice that trailing spaces will be automatically removed, nor a way to avoid that is descripted.

"Keep pouring your ideas"

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In reply to write() removes trailing spaces by jesuashok

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