Thanks a lot Rob. "chomp" command did the job as you suggested.
Also, to add I manually did it in gvim using the "j" in command mode. Thanks, Melvin On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Rob Dixon <rob.di...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 01/12/2011 14:43, Melvin wrote: > >> Hi I have a file in the following format >> >> 111 >> 222 >> 333 >> >> Now I need to print the following output from the given input file as >> 111 222 333 >> >> Is there a way I can do this in perl? >> I tried 2 ways (both ere essentially the same) >> >> 1) Parsing the file and pushing the inputs to a string array. However >> since the inputs had a newline, I could n't remove them >> 2) Using the .="" operator to concatenate. Here too, the newlines from >> the file were taken. >> >> my $parent_loop; >> my $line_cnt; >> my @lines; >> my @output; >> > > You should declare your variables as closely as possible to the point > of first-use. > > > open (FILE_PATTERN ,$ARGV[0]) || die ("ERROR: NO INPUT, NO OUTPUT >> hahaha"); >> > > It is best to use lexical file handles and the three-parameter form of > open. Also include the $! variable in the die string so that you can see > /why/ the open failed. > > open my $file_pattern, '<', $ARGV[0] or die "ERROR: $!"; > > > while (<FILE_PATTERN>) { >> push @lines, $_; >> $line_cnt++; >> } >> > > That loop is the same as > > my @lines = <$file_pattern>; > my $line_cnt = @lines; > > (but you don't neede $line_cnt) > > > close (FILE_AUDIO); >> >> >> for ($parent_loop=0; $parent_loop< $line_cnt; $parent_loop++) { >> push @output,"$lines[$parent_loop]"**; >> } >> > > You shouldn't put scalar variables in double-quotes unless you know > what that does. > > That loop is the same as > > my @output = @lines; > > > for ($parent_loop=0; $parent_loop<= $line_cnt; $parent_loop++) { >> print $urg_command[$parent_loop]; >> } >> > > There is nothing in @urg_command! > > My suggestion for a solution is below. > > HTH, > > Rob > > > > use strict; > use warnings; > > open my $file_pattern, '<', $ARGV[0] or die "ERROR: $!"; > > my @lines = <$file_pattern>; > chomp @lines; > print "@lines\n"; > > **OUTPUT** > > 111 222 333 >