Hello all,

I'm having a little difficulty debugging the following code chunk. Depending on how I set the "$code" variable, it prints different output. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

open (IFH, "data.txt");

while (my $code = <IFH>) {
  chomp($code);

# $code = "0.104567556ORIG.MAXWELL.";
  my $str1 = "foo";
  my $str2 = "bar";
  print sprintf("%32s   %7s   %s\n", "$code", $str1, $str2);
}

close IFH;

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Here's the contents of the data file. Note that it has the same string as in the commented line: 
__DATA
0.104567556ORIG.MAXWELL.

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Here's the output when using the value from the file, and then uncommenting the commented line, respectively: 
$  ./test.pl
       foo   bar56ORIG.MAXWELL.

$  ./test.pl
        0.104567556ORIG.MAXWELL.       foo   bar

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What's going on here?


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