Re: Proposal: chop() dropped

[Bart Lateur]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 08:33:24 -0400 (EDT), Eric Roode wrote:

>For that matter, let's drop chomp(), eh? 

I already proposed that. Benchmarks show that reading a file with
explicit chomp() is easily 20% slower than reading the same file with
implicit chomp(), through the -l command line switch.

The problem is that reappending the newline at the end of the string,
for example through use of $\, is pretty slow, too.

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        Bart.