Kyle -- ...and then Kyle Babich said... % % Nevermind, I spoke to soon. I just "chop()"ed the 1 off to fix it.
Um, now it's empty...
bash-2.05a$ cat patient.records
"Electronic patient records are becoming tologically
reified entities that play the role of epistemic patient
analogues in information space."
"Health information,
privacy, confidentiality and ethics," Eike-Henner W. Kluge,
"International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing,
vol. 35 (Suppl. 1) (1994), pp. 23-7
bash-2.05a$ \
> perl -e '$content=open(F,"patient.records"); \
> print "HERE IT COMES\n"; print $content ; \
> print "THERE IT WAS\n"; close(F);'
HERE IT COMES
1THERE IT WAS
bash-2.05a$ \
> perl -e '$content=open(F,"ppatient.records"); \
> print "HERE IT COMES\n"; print $content ; chop $content; \
> print "THERE IT WAS\n"; close(F);'
HERE IT COMES
THERE IT WAS
Just what were you planning to do with $content anyway?
HTH & HAND
:-D
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