Re: RFC 58 (v1) C changes.

[Mike Pastore]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Bart Lateur wrote:

> All you'd have to do, is set a boolean flag on the "filehandle object",
> saying: "Oi, I want this chomped.". For example:
> 
>       $fh->chomped(1);
> 
> Then, what <$fh> would do, is read one line, looking for whatever line
> end it accepts, finish where found, and depending on whether this flag
> was set or not, remove that many characters from the end. Finito. Very
> simple, probably pretty damn fast, too. The syntax could remain:
> 
>       while(<$fh>) {
>               ...
>       }
> 
> which would only terminate at the end of the file. The bare keyword
> chomp() would no longer exist.

I like this idea. How would you handle an optional parameter to specify
what gets chomped? (replacing $/, since no one seems to want it anymore)

How about:

   $fh->chomp(0);       # off, default
   $fh->chomp(1);       # on, use system newline as chomp
   $fh->chomp('\r\n');  # on, use alternative

Hmm.. methinks this is starting to look unperlish.

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Mike Pastore
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