[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > By the way, since you mentioned chomp - what is the difference between > chomp and chop? I think they are both for removing some type of > un-needed whitespace - does one do space, and the other newline or > something? > > >>also chomp() the $guess variable to remove the unneeded newline. > > >
perldoc -f chomp perldoc -f chop Should clear everything up. The basic difference is that the second removes one character, period, the first removes the input record separator. perldoc perlvar for more about $/ http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>