--- Jennifer Pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I stdin a file name: xxx.txt
> and I would like to have a output file name called x.txt.yyy
>
> This is how I do it
>
> $FILENAME = <STDIN>;
> $output = "$FILENAME.y";
> print "$output";
I suspect the problem in the newline you get from STDIN....
> And the result is only
> .yyy
Isn't it the value of $FILENAME on one line, and .yyy on the next?
> How do I concatenate $FILENAME and .yyy?
Exactly as suggested by others here on the list.
chomp $FILENAME after you read it from STDIN to remove the trailing
newline, and then do what you're already doing. =o)
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