On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Sockmonkey wrote: > My program writes string to a text file and reads them back in. I do it like > this: > > print OUT "$str\n"; > > and then > > $str = <IN>; > chomp($str); > > The problem is one of my strings is "00". It gets written out fine, but gets > read in as "0". How can I stop this from happening? >
Perl has no problem reading a string like this. Are you sure you don't add it with 0 or do something else numeric in between? It works for me.<tm> Regards, Shlomi Fish > Thx > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ An apple a day will keep a doctor away. Two apples a day will keep two doctors away. Falk Fish -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]