This one has me stumped. I'm starting with a file that looks something like this:

1.1.1.1
2.2.2.2
3.3.3.3
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I need all of it to be on one line, with a space in between and some additional text, so I wrote this:

open(SESIP2, ">sesip2");

open(MYINPUTFILE, "sesip1");

while (<MYINPUTFILE>) { 
    my($line) = $_;
    chomp($line);
    print SESIP2 "$line "; 
    }

close(MYINPUTFILE);
close(SESIP2);

open(SESIP3, ">sesip3");

open(MYINPUTFILE, "sesip2");

while (<MYINPUTFILE>) { 
    my($line) = $_;
    print SESIP3 "dest \($line\)"; 
    }

close(MYINPUTFILE);
close(SESIP3);
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This gives me this: dest (1.1.1.1 2.2.2.2 3.3.3.3 ) So far so good. Now, I need to delete the space before ")", so i tried this simple one-liner:

system "sed 's/ )/)/' sesip3 > sesip2";
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For some reason, this deletes the entire line, not just the space. Any ideas? I should probably mention that the IP addresses are stdin that get asked of the user earlier on. Everything else works like a charm, I just can't seem to get rid of that one space.

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