I used a tab, then a pipe, both produced the same results. LAWNS|123|GOOD LAWNS|12|GOOD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <noreply@gunnar.cc> To: <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 9:16 AM Subject: Re: Add Line break when first of a line changes > Jack Butchie wrote: >> I did some fiddling with the list. I noticed if the second or third or >> whatever column wasn't exactly the same as the previous, even though the >> tex in the first field was the same, line was being added. > > What's the field separator? > > -- > Gunnar Hjalmarsson > Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscribe@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-help@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > >Thread Previous | Thread Next