Mazhar schreef: > I tried with your input above but i still get one character at the > beginning missing..
As said, it is probably not missing, but just overwritten on your screen, by the space in your print. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict ; use warnings ; my $fn = $ARGV[0] ; open my $fh, '<', $fn or die "open '$fn': stopped $!" ; while ( <$fh> ) { chomp ; print "[$.>\n{$_}\n<$.]\n" ; } close $fh or die "close '$fn': stopped $!" ; -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>