New line?

[JimJx]

Hi all,

I have what I hope is my last problem and a very simpile one.

I am using a flatfile to store some info in the following format:
name|crypt|used

For some reason, I am not getting a new line at the end of the entry so instead of:

name|crypt|used
name2|crypt|used

I get:

name|crypt|usedname2|crypt|used

Can anyone spot the prob? I have a \n at the end the should be getting written.....

Thanks as always,
Jim

open (INF, ">>DB.txt") or die ("Unable to open the file \'DB\'. $!");
      print INF "$Name\|" . &CryptPassword($Pass) . "\n";
close INF;

 

[rharsh]

I'm not sure why it's not printing the newline. You could try printing a list rather than concatinating everything into one string.

print INF "$Name\|", &CryptPassword($Pass), "\n";

 

[ishnid]

Seems to me that it's the newline that should already be at the end of the file that's missing.

Couple of other points: there's no need to escape a single quote in a double quoted string, or a pipe symbol in any string - that's only a special character for regular expressions.

 

[KevinADC]

The pipe is a special character in a filehandle too. Probably would be rare to have a pipe in a scalar used as a filename but someone might try and inject one in user input for malicous reasons.




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