Re^4: Lose first element of hash in hash ..

[theantler]

ikegami, jethro, thanks for your kind help. Ok, that is pretty crazy but it makes sense, and I suspected something along those lines (that it is stored as \nbed instead of bed. But how can it? It is read from a text file composed in vi that reads:

bed-There is some sheets and a pillow here-pillow-Nice soft pillow ..-
+sheets-Long white sheets .. You slept in them last night.

I dont know where the \n comes from. I would suspect that the \n would terminate the line (from a CR) not initiate it. ta

[jethro]

Well, if you do

cat rooms.txt

what do you see?

> cat rooms.txt
bed-There is ...

or

> cat rooms.txt

bed-There is ...

If you see the second variant, then you have a \n at the start of your file. Maybe you should read the file line by line, or sanitize your input.