On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Brett W. McCoy 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.
My hand didn't make it off the shift key when I was typing $?. That
should be $/!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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