in reply to Re: understanding print
in thread understanding print

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.

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
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]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom