Madhu Reddy wrote:

> $_ will have newline char......
> '  '(2 spaces) added after the new line char (\n)
> i want to add before newline char...
> i don't want to chomp the newline char....
> i want new line char should be there again..
> 
> how to do this ?

try:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

open(FH,"file.txt") || die $!;
while(<FH>) {
        s/\n/  \n/ if(length == 263);
        print;
}
close(FH);

__END__

david

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