Re^2: Replace spaces with commas and write to other file

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Re^3: Replace spaces with commas and write to other file by roboticus (Chancellor) on Feb 14, 2011 at 11:10 UTC
sufi: You just about have it. You're replacing all whitespace with commas. The problem is that the end of line `\n` is a whitespace character. You're turning it into a comma. You should `chop` off the end of line before you do your replacement, and then you can add it back when you `print` the line. Then you'll have solved your problem. ...roboticus When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Replace spaces with commas and write to other file by fidesachates (Monk) on Feb 14, 2011 at 18:16 UTC
Safer to use chomp.	[reply]
Re^3: Replace spaces with commas and write to other file by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 14, 2011 at 10:04 UTC
So, maybe you want to output a line separator after you output each line? Or maybe you want to only replace the space character and not all whitespace (including line separator characters)?´	[reply]
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Re^3: Replace spaces with commas and write to other file by Ratazong (Monsignor) on Feb 14, 2011 at 10:10 UTC
Hi It would be great if you could use `<code>`-tags around your code and data input/output ... so I'm just guessing. It seems your issue is that only one, long line is shown in the output-file. That's easy to solve: if you print `\n` a linefeed is produced. So you should add this linefeed after each element. So after `$aln =~ s/\s/,/g;` you could add `$aln .= "\n";`. Of course there are many other ways to reach the same effect, e.g. by using the special variable `$,`. HTH, Rata	[reply] [d/l] [select]