Well I actually don't use chomp anymore, I can't really explain it but I have come across files that just didn't agree with chomp. So I use...

$string =~ s/^\s+//;
$string =~ s/\s+$//;

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To remove any whitespace(including newlines) before the first character and after the last character on the line, as well as...

@fi = split(/\s+/, $nextline);

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... to break apart the line by spaces.

This whole issue I was having actually initiated with my while loop being constructed with...

while(@fi[0] eq'')
{
     $nextline = readline<IN>;
     //remove whitespace
     //split the line, but I think I included my accidentally so that 
+I had

     my @fi = split.....
}

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...so that I also changed my scope inside the while loop accidentally by using...

 my $nextline = ...

instead of...

 $nextline = ...

In reply to Re^3: While loop conditions in Perl by joemaniaci
in thread While loop conditions in Perl by joemaniaci

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