On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Brian Fraser <frase...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:42 PM, jbiskofski <jbiskof...@gmail.com> wrote: > Brian, thanks for the quick reply. I apologize if its not the correct > etiquete to reply directly to you, this is the first time Ive had to > recur to the mailing lists. > > I've made sure my string does not have a \n at the end. Ive chomped it > and inspected it in several ways, if I open the resulting file in 'vi' > theres no newline at the end, yet in a hex editor it shows up there, > at the end. I may be wrong but I think this may be related to how perl > writes files... ? > > Thanks again and happy new year. > > -Jose > > > It's no problem - You should just CC beginners@perl.org for all replies. > That way, your mails will get to everyone. > > I wouldn't think it as being Perl-related, but who knows; A small test: > > use strict; > use warnings; > use 5.010; > > open my $fh, '>', 'some_file_that_doesnt_exist.txt'; > > say { $fh } "I'm a test."; > print { $fh } "I'm another test\n"; > > Does this result in the same behavior? Also, you might wish to CC the > openssl error - Mostly because I find it unlikely that a trailing empty line > would break anything : ) > > Brian. > You know, CC the entire list. The exact opposite of what I just did. Doh. Apologies for the duplicate, Jose!