On Apr 8, Bryan R Harris said:
>I read in a file, then strip all lines that start with "#" or "\n". When I
>print them out, though, the first line is left justified correctly but the
>rest have a single space in front of them. Any ideas why?
The reason is because you did:
>print "@comments";
`perldoc -q array` yields the question "Why do I get weird spaces when I
print an array of lines?" in perlfaq5. Printing an array in quotes is the
same as doing
print join($", @comments);
And the $" variable holds the string " " by default. This means that
printing "@comments" does
print join(" ", @comments);
which places a space in between each element... which "looks" like a space
in front of every line except the first.
--
Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/
RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/
** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
<stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
[ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ]
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
