Re: Re: print datafields separated by tab

[thinker]

Hi davido,

This is wrong in (at least) 2 regards. Firstly, the syntax is wrong in the while loop. What you needed was

while (my $line =  <STDIN> ) {

Secondly, chomp does not return what you think it does. It returns the number of characters it removes, in your case 1 for each iteration. So your final result will be like

1    1    1

Hope this helps

thinker

[davido]

Wiping sleepy sand out of eyes..... Thanks for the head's up. I've fixed what should have been simple code. That will teach me to cut the 'test it first' corner. ;)

By the way, you can see my use of chomp's seldom-used return value here: Chomped JAPH.

Thanks again.

Dave

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