hi

i have this problem that has been troubling me for a while but it never cosed any real problems till now 

my $line;
while(<LINES>){                                  
    if (m/^--/){   
           push (my @data, [$id,$line]);                 
           $self->_loaddb(table => 'TABLE',
                          data=>\@data);
                                               
           $line= undef;                              
           $id++;                                  
    }                                            
    else{                                        
        chomp(my $string = $_);                    
        $line.=$string;                            
    }                                            
}




##########


file.txt


--1
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
jhjhjhjhjhjhjhjhjhjhjjjj
--2
kkkkkkkkkkjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 
ljdfsdhgdhgkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
rrrrrrrrrrr
rrrrrrrrrr
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
--3
ffffffffffffffffffffffff
ggggggggggggggggggggggg
fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
-- 


##################

table 

------------------------
|  ID      |   Line    |
|----------|-----------|
|  123     |   null    |
|----------|-----------|
|  878     |   kkkkk...|
|----------|-----------|
...

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so from the code you can see that for the first run in while loop it loads(function for loading data into db) id into table with $line variable empty. so far this wasn't a problem but since the table has been changed in a way that it doesn't support null values for lines any more, this became a problem :)

any suggestions how to import this file?

thnx

Update:

THNX , getting a bit rusty and lazy !

In reply to problem with evaluating first line in a file by baxy77bax

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