On Jul 2, Sudarsan Raghavan said: >Mark-Nathaniel Weisman wrote: > >> I've got a script that reads a mail file, then copies it into an array. >> The same script then pulls the data out of the array into another file >> location. I've got a situation here, in that when I do the print >> OUTFILE "@array"; it adds a singular space in front of each line after >> the first, so the first line reads OK, but then the rest of the file is >> off by one character, what am I doing wrong? > >You are not doing anything wrong, the extra space at the start is due to >$" (perldoc perlvar). You have two options Change the print statement >like this [...] >or loop through @array and write the elements individually into OUTFILe
And what's wrong with just doing: print OUTFILE @array; That's fine -- printing a list of strings (each with their own newline). -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
