in reply to Parsing a comma delimited file
When specifying pathnames use forward slashes '/' not backslashes '\', even on windows machines.open(IN, "<c:\doclist.chr") or die "Couldn't open file, $!"; open(OUT, ">c:\doclist.txt") or die "Couldn't open file, $!";
Perl will handle this for you.
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