Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:46:13 GMT
From: Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: extra newline in s command
Message-Id: <0oprqtsnpiv3tjj3huifm23a21jfuc3bgi@4ax.com>

laura fairhead wrote:

>Can anyone explain to me why I'm getting extra
>newlines inserted with the s/// command in this
>script;
>
>open(FILE,qq[patternfile])
>@k=(qq[0000],<FILE>)
>while(<>){
>  /(\d{4})/&& $1<=$#k && s/$1/$k[$1]/
;
>  print
>  }
>
>
>Every line that has an s/// done on it has
>an extra newline and I don't see why it's
>doing that.

Beause your substitution array items all contain newlines. You just read
them from a file, and you didn't chomp() them.

-- 
	Bart.