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
> 
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