Hello fellow perlmonks... I've got a simple one (i hope) today that i could use some help with if ur willing

I'm reading the contents of a file... which I've been doing the same way for months now...

say("Dequeuing ... ");
  my @lines = <MYQUEUE>;
  if (@lines){
    foreach my $line (@lines){
      #$line =~ s/"(.+)"/$1/gix;
      #say("$line \n");
      schedule($line);
      }
    $is_queued = 1;
    close (MYQUEUE);
    }

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I changed the contents from url's on a single line to a part number on a single line... I read the file with excel 2007 and save it as a .txt and it looks fine to me in vi... but when i read it in it adds a space between EVERY two characters so "1071901" becomes "1 0 7 1 9 0 1"

Any thoughts?

In reply to Spaces Between Chars While Reading File by Godsrock37

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