Re^2: Attempting to fill a hash

Thank you for your assistance.
I believe I have finally cracked the problem. The file I was using was downloaded, and evidently there is some kind of character attached to the words that is messing up either chomp or reading it period. When I delete a word manually in gedit and retype it then save the file. That word will succesfully load a keyvalue, however all the other words won't. I'm going to attempt to read all the lines into an array and write them back as raw data to fix the file.

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Re^3: Attempting to fill a hash by almut (Canon) on Jun 06, 2008 at 02:09 UTC
Your file has most likely been written on Windows, and you're reading it on Unix... You could run `$ perl -i.bak -pe 's/\r$//' your-wordlist.file` [download] to remove the extraneous carriage returns. Alternatively, filter the file through the `crlf` PerlIO layer when reading it (as it does happen on Windows by default), i.e. `open my $wordhandle, "<:crlf", $wordfile or die ...` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Attempting to fill a hash by chrism01 (Friar) on Jun 06, 2008 at 05:22 UTC
Or use the 'dos2unix' util on most Unix like systems	[reply]
Re^4: Attempting to fill a hash by TwistedTransistor (Novice) on Jun 06, 2008 at 02:23 UTC
thank you, that fixed it all, once again I appreciate everyones help in pointing out where my code needed fixing up / rearranging, and for that tip on removing unwanted carriage returns. :-)	[reply]