On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 12:01 PM, Ho, Tony wrote:
> Hi guys > I was wondering if you could help me. > In my perl code, I am reading a file with the following line: > > 123000 > > There are 3 spaces before 123000. > I unpack the values into 2 variables, A and B > A is assigned the 3 spaces and B is assigned the value 123000. > I have another variable C which is assigned the value 600. > reading from a file? maybe show some code? > If I write the values A, B and C to a new file using the following code: > > print NEW_FILE $C$A$B > i don't think that's right. no concatenation operator and no semi-colon. should be: print NEW_FILE $C,$A,$B; or: print NEW_FILE $C.$A.$B; > I get the following result: > > 600123000 > > I was hoping to get to obtain the following result: > > 600 123000 > > Any ideas why the spaces in variable A is not taken into account ? > > I would be most grateful if you could let me know. > Thanks in advance > Tony if you interpret the string ' 123' somewhere as a number it won't have spaces. then when you print it out - no spaces. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
