Hi Kaushal, Yes you are right if you have a hardcoded line of text in your script you know if there is a "\n" or not at the end.
Now imagine you are reading a bunch of data from a text file created from user input or some unknown script... who knows how much weird things are there at the end of those lines. So in order to save you a huge headache perl offers you the chomp operator to at least get rid of the line feeds. Regards, Rob On 10/30/07, Kaushal Shriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have the below lines of code. > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $text =" a line of text\n" ; > chomp($text); #the chomp operator gets rid of the newline character > print "$text"; > > My question is if i remove the new line character "\n" in the above code > then i dont need the chomp operator if my understanding is correct. > > so where does the chomp operator plays its role, can some one explain me > here with a sample of code. > > Thanks and Regards > > Kaushal >
