On Fri, Apr 06 2018, Eric Wong wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 06 2018, Eric Wong wrote: >> > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> --- a/perl/Git.pm >> >> +++ b/perl/Git.pm >> >> @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ sub get_record { >> >> my ($fh, $rs) = @_; >> >> local $/ = $rs; >> >> my $rec = <$fh>; >> >> - chomp $rec if defined $rs; >> >> + chomp $rec if defined $rs and defined $rec; >> > >> > I'm struggling to understand the reason for the "defined $rs" >> > check. I think it was a braino on my part and meant to use: >> > >> > chomp $rec if defined $rec; >> >> Whether this makes any sense is another question, but you seem to have >> explicitly meant this at the time. The full function definition with >> documentation: >> >> =item get_record ( FILEHANDLE, INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR ) >> >> Read one record from FILEHANDLE delimited by INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, >> removing any trailing INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR. > > I've always known chomp to respect the value of $/; so chomp($rec) > whould only cut out whatever $rs is, and be a no-op if $rs is undef.
Yup, you're right. I missed that.