hullo

i have files that contain data like this below 

1.4567 ,11:00:00
1.4571 ,11:00:01
            ,             
1.4567 ,11:58:00rftft
1.4566 , 
1.5555 ,11:43:00

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I want to disregard any whitespace and any extraneous characters that show up after the time in column 2. I also want to disregard the last character after the decimal place no rounding) in the first column ... so if i were to write the above file back .. it would look like this .. 
1.456,11:00:00
1.457,11:00:01 
1.456,11:58:00 
1.555,11:43:00

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a snippet of my readfile code looks like this at the minute 
while (<DATAFILE>) {
       
        chomp $_;
        ($quote,$time) = split(",", $_);
        chop($quote);chop($quote);
    ($hour,$minute,$second) = split(":",$time);

}

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can anyone pls help me clean up my code, to catch these anomalies in my input file? i need to run calculations of the final data

thanks.

conal.

In reply to dealing with whitespace and using chop when reading delimited files by Conal

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