your 'newline' character might be chr(13) so a chop might do better for you or
my $newline = chr(13); $line =~ s/$newline//; ... HTH JY ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 3:08 PM Subject: newline...be gone > Greetings, > > I have a question that probably easy to many... > > How can I get rid of the newline at the end of $line > (which transfers to $remainder after splitting)? > > foreach $filename (@filelist) { > open(INPUT,"$filename"); > foreach $line (<INPUT>) { > chomp($line); > my ($gene,$remainder) = split(/\t/,$line,2); > chomp ($remainder); > $genedex{$gene} .= "$remainder\t"; > } > } > > > I've tried substituting, chomping, but the newline > remains. It's gotta be something obvious... > > Thank you very much, > David > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs