Re: understanding print

Does $words[13] contain chr 13 (carriage return)?

Update:

use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1;
print Dumper $words[13];
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I think you'll see "\r" in there somewhere.

Update^2: s/say/print/;

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Re^2: understanding print by pdeshpan (Acolyte) on Aug 12, 2008 at 14:48 UTC
Hello FunkyMonk! Thanks for replying. Incidently my code `wrds[13]` is what had contained the information that I needed. The code was working with information from `wrds[13]`. Unfortunately I could not try Data::Dump but the coincidence of you suspecting something about `wrds[13]` and it containing my info. is strange. I used a work around (of manually putting the string in my variable which is not what I had written the code for) and went ahead with my work. But I shall be thankful if order change is understood. Regards.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: understanding print by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 12, 2008 at 15:03 UTC
What FunkyMonk was getting to is that printing a carriage return (`"\r"`) causes the cursor to move to the first column on many terminals. We suspect the value of `$wrds[13]` contains that character. `>perl -le"print qq{abcdef\rghi}" ghidef` [download] Unfortunately I could not try Data::Dump Why not?	[reply] [d/l] [select]