Simple Output Question

[MikeCopeland]

I am just starting to learn Perl, and I have a simple question: why is the "!" (in the "Hello..." statement) appearing on a new line in the following program's execution?:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "The Phantom Spitter was here.\n";
print "Enter your name: \n";
$myName = <STDIN>;
print "Hello, $myName!\n"; ## <--this line...
print "Finis...";

 

[brigmar]

<STDIN> is capturing the enter/return key as a CR/CRLF combination.

Broken down, $myname might contain "Mike Copeland\n".

To prevent this, chomp() your input:

$myname = <STDIN>;
chomp($myname);