Re: add double quotes to a perl variable

Add chomp:

while (<$filehandle>) {
    chomp;
    ...
    print "$escaped_wquotes\n";
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(Also, consider changing || die to or die -- it's a precedence issue...)

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Re^2: add double quotes to a perl variable by casperdaghost (Initiate) on Nov 15, 2013 at 20:40 UTC
ok so there was a new line at the end of each interation of while. while adds a new line after each print?	[reply]
Re^3: add double quotes to a perl variable by Kenosis (Priest) on Nov 15, 2013 at 20:49 UTC
An input record separator (found in Perl's variable `$/` and usually set to `\n`) determines the end of a line ('record') when reading from a file--like you were doing in your `while` loop. It's kept on the end of the line, unless you do something like `chomp`ing the line. In your case, not removing the input record separator produced undesirable results in your final output. (Sometimes, however, the very last line of a file may not terminate with an input record separator, because the line ends at the end of the file.)	[reply] [d/l] [select]