[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, October 18, 2007 9:39 am, Matthew Whipple wrote: > >> Paul wrote: >> >>> I am assigned the output of a function to a variable. >>> >>> my$variable = (function); >>> print "$variable\n"; >>> >>> The output is: >>> text >>> 0 >>> >>> So I try this: >>> >>> chop my$variable = (function); >>> print "$variable\n"; >>> >>> The output is: >>> text >>> *** this is blank space output ***** >>> >>> So it get's rid of the "0", but outputs a new line. >>> >>> I try double chopping with same results. >>> >>> How can I finally get rid of it, I just want the text output. Ugh. >>> >>> >>> >> Try chop followed by chomp >> >> > > It doesn't work. For some reason, this always seems to be the hardest > thing for me in perl. Ugh. > > > > Can you post the appropriate code? Depending on what the function is used for you could potentially change the return value there. You could also check to make sure that it is in fact a new line character in case it somehow ended up as something odd that is behaving that way. Something like ord(substr($variable, 1)) after chop (and chomp).
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