Greetings friends, I did a super search for removing spaces, and wasn't quite sure how it carried over to an array.
I am trying to read data from a file, split it, into an array and then print elements into another file.
Data format:
Dummy,Big I, <bdummy@name.com>
Fool,Yuri A., <yfool@name.com>
Stupid,Issac A., <istupid@name.com>
Here is the code i am using:
#!d:\perl.exe -w
use strict;
use warnings;
my $oldfile = $ARGV[0];
my $newfile = $oldfile . ".clean.txt";
open (OLDFILE, "$oldfile") || die "Could not open $oldfile";
open (NEWFILE, ">$newfile") || die "Could not open $newfile";
while (<OLDFILE>)
{
my @record = split /(["<",">"])/;
print NEWFILE "@record[0...4,]";
print NEWFILE "$record[6]\n";
}
close OLDFILE;
close NEWFILE;
Here is the data that gets generated:
Dummy , Big I , bdummy@name.com
Fool , Yuri A. , yfool@name.com
Stupid , Issac A. , istupid@name.com
I keep getting spaces added after the fields.
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