Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> 
> On May 23, John W. Krahn said:
> 
> >> while ($chopped_char ne "."){
> >>          chop $netout_new;
> >>          $chopped_char = "how do i get this???"
> >> }
> >
> >$netout_new =~ s/(?<=\.)\d+$//;
> 
> Check your logic -- the OP wants to remove "." as well:
> 
>   s/\.\d+$//;

That is not how I read it.  From the OPs original message:

Mat Harris wrote:
> 
> i know that chop returns the char chopped but how do i get that into a var?
> i want to be able to chop all numbers after decimal point from a numeric
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> string. i thought something like this would work:
> 
> while ($chopped_char ne "."){
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>          chop $netout_new;
>          $chopped_char = "how do i get this???"
> }


YMMV  HAND  :-)

John
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