Hello monks...
I have some code that does List::Compare on the contents of two files. I realized, though, that there's no reason why I couldn't create the second array in memory and save myself having to write a second file to disk. However, these statements don't seem to produce the same array:
open COMP, "+>$file";
print COMP "$var1\n";
push @comp, "$var1\n";
<some stuff>
print COMP "\t$var2\n";
push @comp, "\t$var2\n";
my @array = <COMP>
when it's all finished,
@array ne @comp
...and that just doesn't seem right. I'd like to understand what's going on here. I hope I've provided enough code.