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Thank you VinsWorld, I expected to see the contents of @raw. Which sould be two sentences. The file.txt that was the source input contained two sentences. On the command line I type in the pl script blank space and file.txt. I hit return.The curser moves to next line on command screen and stays there forever. ostra

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by JavaFan (Canon) on Apr 03, 2012 at 18:27 UTC
    As far as I can deduce from your program (which isn't inside of <code> tags, so very hard to read), @raw will be assigned the current line. @raw will never contain more than one line. Finally, when all input is seen, @raw is printed. And hence, will print the final line of the input.
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      Thank you for your reply. But I don't see the final line-i don't see anything.
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by davido (Cardinal) on Apr 04, 2012 at 07:48 UTC

    Can you please show us the exact command you are using to invoke the script?


    Dave

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      Dave thank you for getting back to me. The command is written as follows: namelist.pl names.txt Ostra
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        This is the script that I am using: 
        #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $input='';
my @raw=();

while(defined ($input=<>)){
chomp($input);
@raw=$input;
}
print "@raw\n";

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        names.txt contents are: I am going home. When are you leaving? Any feedback will be appreciated. Ostra

        Code tags added by GrandFather

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