Re: skip newline charater when reading

Hi,

open(OUT,">$outfile");
open(F1, "<$infile")   or die "Could not open $infile for reading!\n";
$/ = "#";
while (<F1>) {
      chomp; # <--- remove trailing newline character
      print OUT "$_\n";
}
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should do the trick
Regards,
svenXY

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Re^2: skip newline charater when reading by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 13, 2009 at 10:47 UTC
Beware, chomp is sensitive to $/!	[reply]
Re^2: skip newline charater when reading by davido (Cardinal) on Jan 13, 2009 at 17:04 UTC
`open(OUT,">$outfile"); open(F1, "<$infile") or die "Could not open $infile for reading!\n";` [download] I realize that this is just an example snippet, but.... verbally fail if $infile won't open, and silently fail if the output file can't be opened? Also, have a look at the first paragraph or two of chomp and how it reacts to changes to `$/`. You're not removing the trailing newline characters. Dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: skip newline charater when reading by repellent (Priest) on Jan 13, 2009 at 17:37 UTC
chomp will try to remove the input record separator `$/`. `$_` may have embedded `"\n"`. The `chomp` approach does not deal with this issue.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: skip newline charater when reading by coldy (Scribe) on Jan 13, 2009 at 10:46 UTC
Thanks but doesn't that just remove the last character of the line that is read, this just deleted my '#' characters, leaving the newline characters.	[reply]