[Chicago-talk] Why does Perl hate my csv file?

[Andy Lester]

On Dec 13, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Eric Ellington wrote:

> Change the file name to 1.txt and I get output or if I comment out "my
> $x = <FILE>;" and even then the output is jacked up. Why is that? Does
> open do something special when it sees a file that ends in .csv? I
> found nothing at http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/open.html or on
> ActiveState's website.


No, Perl doesn't care at all.  There's something else going on that  
you're not describing.  Are the line-endings different for your  
machine from the machine that you got the file from?  You're on Unix  
and it came from Windows, or vice versa?

Also, although "use strict" is a good thing, even more important is  
"use warnings".

Throw that in and see what else happens.  And what does "the output is  
jacked up" mean, anyway?

xoox,
Andy

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