There is a disagreement of opinion here - not any disagreement on the facts of the situation.

Ok, there is more than one way to do it. I think fine.

I personally prefer fixed width font and no tabs within code. My normal program editor actually converts tabs to the appropriate number of spaces when I save the code to a file. I indent the code like I want. When I work in MS Visual Studio, it doesn't do that and I find it annoying - sometimes I want to take a MS .C file and use it on a Unix system and then we get into this "how many spaces does a tab mean?" thing. You see it as a plus. I see it as a hassle.

So I guess mileage varies. I have personally found the "|" (pipe character) to be a good field separator in many circumstances. When that doesn't work, then I go to full blown CSV with all the complications that involves. But there are some very good Perl modules that can parse this out albeit slower than simple split() or match global.

In reply to Re^5: EMPTY OUTPUT FILE GENERATED by Marshall
in thread EMPTY OUTPUT FILE GENERATED by perlneedhelp2012

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