On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Andre` Niel Cameron wrote:
> I have a pain in the butt array that SOMETIMES has a CR at the end and
> sometimes does not. Can anyone think of a way to test to see if the \n is
> there and if it is then chop else no chop? Cause if I just use chop then it
> starts chopping off letters sometimes...
Don't use chop, use chomp. It does exactly what you want -- technically,
it chops off $?, which by default is \n, but doesn't chop it if it's not
there. You can test the return value of chomp to see how many characters
it removed.
perldoc -f chomp
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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