AndrewMcHorney wrote: > Hello Hello,
> I am wondering how the chomp function works. I am looking to see how I > can truncate new line and/or carriage returns from a string. Will chomp > do nothing if there are no carriage return or line feed at the end. If > the end of the string has a space will it leave it alone? If $/ contains a string then chomp() removes the contents of the $/ variable from the end of the string and it returns a count of the number of $/ that were removed. If $/ contains undef or a reference then chomp() does nothing. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>