With a regex you can get much finer control; with a "r" modifier
for the regexen indicating that it should start at the end of
the string instead of the beginning the speed issue is gone;
i think unchop and unchomp is silly; that's what .= is for
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David Nicol 816.
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:42:24 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>>
>> Chomp removes one or more line separators from the end.
>
>It does? You're using a different version of Perl than I am.
Try setting $/ to the empty string. (not undef!)
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Bart.
On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, John Porter wrote:
> Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> >
> > Chomp removes one or more line separators from the end.
>
> It does? You're using a different version of Perl than I am.
Sorry. You're correct. I was rolling the string, list, and paragraph
mode removals all into one a
At 03:36 PM 8/9/00 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, Ed Mills wrote:
> > Here is the argument-
> >
> > Perl has (had?) chomp(). It removes \n at the end of a line. That's
> > something we often need to do. We ALSO often need to ADD \n to the end
> of a
> > line. This usually lo
Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>
> Chomp removes one or more line separators from the end.
It does? You're using a different version of Perl than I am.
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John Porter
On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, Ed Mills wrote:
> Here is the argument-
>
> Perl has (had?) chomp(). It removes \n at the end of a line. That's
> something we often need to do. We ALSO often need to ADD \n to the end of a
> line. This usually looks something like:
>
> print "$kitty\n";
Chomp removes o
