On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Frank Newland wrote:

> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict ;
> my $line  ;
> while (<>)  {
> chomp $_ ;
> $line =~ s/\s+$//; #  remove trailing spaces
> print " $line \n";
> }

No where in your script do you assign a value to line.  What you want is
something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict ;

while (chomp(my $line = <>))  {
  $line =~ s/\s+$//; #  remove trailing spaces
  print "$line \n";
}


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