Hello High Perl Monks!
I have attempted to split a file based on a comma.
This should work, but I think that there are some return
characters that I am not accounting for in my script.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
# open a filehandle
# file being read from
open(my $in, "/Users/myDir/Desktop/hassan2.txt");
open(my $out, ">/Users/myDir/Desktop/hassan_out.txt"); 

while(<$in>){
    my @fields = split /,/;
    my $field1 = $fields[0];
    my $field2  = $fields[1];
    print  $out "$field1\t$field2\n";
}
close($in);
close($out);

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The file that I am processing looks like this:
"-0.500, 4.502e-6"
"-0.499, 4.474e-6"
"-0.498, 4.458e-6"
"-0.497, 4.445e-6"
"-0.496, 4.433e-6"
"-0.495, 4.421e-6"

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And my output looks like this:
"-0.500     4.502e-6"
"-0.499

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When it should look like this:
-0.499 4.474e-6
-0.498 4.458e-6
-0.497 4.445e-6
-0.496 4.433e-6
-0.495 4.421e-6

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Any ideas?

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