Re: can't read URL from tab delim

The code you posted doesn't have 17 lines, so the code is likely not responsible for the error messages you posted.

You are reading in a file but you aren't stripping the newlines off the lines read in. Hence $url will have a newline at the end. It is possible but unlikely that your files have names with a newline at the end, so you better strip the newlines after reading the files:

chomp @file;
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As a general tip, never just print out a variable for debugging - always print it out enclosed in some delimiters so you can easily spot leading or trailing whitespace:

print "Url is '$url'\n";
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Re^2: can't read URL from tab delim by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 17, 2007 at 16:22 UTC
Taking that tip further, you might want to get in the habit of using one of the data structure serialization modules (Data::Dumper, YAML::Syck) to print out values in debug messages. That way you don't have to go back and add more debugging scaffolding when you have to start tracking down what exactly `ARRAY(0xdeadbeef)` contains.	[reply]
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