On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:12:40AM -0500, Brust, Corwin wrote:
> From: Simply Hao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> <snip>
> >> might want to consider removing chomp() and possibly chop().
> >
> >They're faster than regexes, right?
> </snip>
>
> Dunno about faster but mmmm so sweet.
>
> I like
>
> while (<>) { print chomp }
>
> better then
>
> while (<>{
> s/$/$//;
> print
> }
> and it *seems* like it would be faster
Someone proposed (I think I deleted that email) to make
while (<FH>) { ... }
work like
while (<FH>) { chomp; ... }
If this were to happen, then I'd fully support removing chomp() from
the language as long as there was a way to turn that behavior on and
off, of course. (use/no chomping anyone?) We're going to have to
revisit chomp() anyway if we make $/ per-filehandle because chomp()
acts on strings, not filehandles.
-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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