Re: strings printing bug

2008-04-27 Thread Rob Dixon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Apr 26, 9:55 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> The following script is to read 4 consecutive lines at a time from a >>> file, concatenate the first 3 lines >>> (with a ", "), and print the result to STDOUT. If the 3 lin

Re: strings printing bug

2008-04-27 Thread Chas. Owens
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:42 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried your suggestion and got the following output: > 1) the first col didn't print, and the 3rd col overwrote the 2nd; this > is the main stumbling block > 2) also, what if example.txt has 36 lines with the same format as > descr

Re: strings printing bug

2008-04-27 Thread evan9021
I tried your suggestion and got the following output: 1) the first col didn't print, and the 3rd col overwrote the 2nd; this is the main stumbling block 2) also, what if example.txt has 36 lines with the same format as described. FYI I'm using cgywin's version of perl. -- On Apr 26, 9:55 am, [EMAI

Re: strings printing bug

2008-04-26 Thread Rob Dixon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following script is to read 4 consecutive lines at a time from a > file, concatenate the first 3 lines > (with a ", "), and print the result to STDOUT. If the 3 lines aren't > concatenated they print correctly, however > if they are, the result is gibberish. Any sug

Re: strings printing bug

2008-04-25 Thread John W. Krahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following script is to read 4 consecutive lines at a time from a file, concatenate the first 3 lines (with a ", "), and print the result to STDOUT. If the 3 lines aren't concatenated they print correctly, however if they are, the result is gibberish. Any suggestions