Hi,

I have the following code: 

print PC "$id|";
foreach $userdirective(@userdirectiveslist){
        $hashref=$instdetails{$instnum}{$userdirective};
        foreach $key(keys %$hashref){
                print PC "$key"; ## last key value
        }
        print PC ',';
}

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which prints: 

smpd300:/jr/patrol/ba/data/BA_AUDIT# cat smpd300_patrol.apache_misc.da
+t
smpd300_1|On,
smpd300_2|On,
smpd300_3|On,
smpd300_4|On,
,mpd300_5|On
smpd300_6|On,
smpd300_7|Off,

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It should print "smpd300_5|On," but for some reason the comma is appearing at the start of the line.

What's even more strange is, if I do a grep: 

smpd300:/jr/patrol/ba/data/BA_AUDIT# grep smpd300_5 smpd300_patrol.apa
+che_misc.dat
,mpd300_5|On
smpd300:/jr/patrol/ba/data/BA_AUDIT#

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it seems to filter out the line.

Does anyone know why this happens, and how to fix it?

Thanks,
js.

Found the problem. There seems to be a carriage return in there: 

od -c smpd300_patrol.apache_misc.dat
0000000   s   m   p   d   3   0   0   _   1   |   O   n   ,  \n   s   
+m
0000020   p   d   3   0   0   _   2   |   O   n   ,  \n   s   m   p   
+d
0000040   3   0   0   _   3   |   O   n   ,  \n   s   m   p   d   3   
+0
0000060   0   _   4   |   O   n   ,  \n   s   m   p   d   3   0   0   
+_
0000100   5   |   O   n  \r   ,  \n   s   m   p   d   3   0   0   _   
+6
0000120   |   O   n   ,  \n   s   m   p   d   3   0   0   _   7   |   
+O
0000140   f   f   ,  \n
0000144

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