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Hello, I'm new do perl for please forgive the bad coding. I'm trying to take user input for 3 questions then write the answers to a .txt file in answer1|answer2|answer3 format but it's writing it as
answer1
|answer2
|answer3
I don't understand this as i only have one \n. 
open (FILE, ">>data2.txt");
print FILE ("$name | $country | $phone\n");
close FILE;

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is what i'm using to write to the file.

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Re: not writing to .txt file properly
by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 24, 2006 at 07:48 UTC

    Your variables $name, $country and likely $phone contain newlines. If you're reading them in from a file or from user input, you likely want to remove the newline:

    ... get input ...

chomp $name;
chomp $country;
chomp $phone;

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    See chomp for documentation of it...

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