Hello everybody, In the example script below, I'd expect to see 3 lines of text appearing when I use the 'write' command but I only see the first two (123 followed by 456). I know that as much as possible is read from the variable before filling and printing a field (as many words or as many characters as possible?). In this example, this is the behaviour I deduced: 1. Read 10 characters (the width of the field): "123\r\n456\r\n" 2. Print "123\r\n" but leave the rest in the variable 3. Read 10 characters: "456\r\n789\r\n" 4. Print "456\r\n" (but leave the rest in the variable?) 5. Since the variable was emptied in step 3, we're finished (!!!??) and there's nothing left to do (and therefore '789' is not printed). If I add one '\n' to the end of the string then the line '789' appears as well. Basically, playing with different lengths of the field and sizes of the lines in the variable, the last lines (i.e. a series of characters ending with '\r\n') are 'lost' if they are small enough to fit together in the last 'read-pass'. My questions: 1) Is this behaviour correct? I'm using perl v5.6.0, built for i386-linux. 2) If this is not a bug, how can I ensure that all the lines appear when executing 'write'? 3) A bit off the toping, but is there a way to use '~~' and still have the lines printed from the very first column? =============================================================== #!/usr/bin/perl $test_body = "123\r\n456\r\n789\r\n"; print $test_body; write; format STDOUT = test format ~~^<<<<<<<<< $test_body . =============================================================== This script outputs: 123 456 789 test format 123 456 =============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------ Philippe Brodier-Yourstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nagravision http://www.nagra.com Route de Genève, 22 Tel: +41 (0)21 7320625 CH-1033 Cheseaux / Switzerland Fax: +41 (0)21 7320300 ------------------------------------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
