On Jul 8, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Carl Friedberg wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure I've missed something, and am about to do serious googling, > but does anyone here happen to know how to encourage the print > statement not to break lines at 132 chars? > > I have a 200-characacter string $y that I want to write to a file, > but if I do this: > > open XML, "> something.xml" > > print XMLO '<',$x,'>',$y,'</',$x,'>',"\n";
XMLO or just XML? That makes it look like you're printing to a different filehandle from the one you've opened. > the print commands inserts a hard return after each 132 characters. What's your Perl version? As Hein says, check the file format. What happens if you say: print XML '<'.$x.'>'.$y.'</'.$x.'>'."\n"; with dots instead of commas? This will concatenate them all into a string and do a single I/O, as opposed to a separate I/O for each item in the list. ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:craigbe...@mac.com "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
