[tpm] chomp problem

Matt Sergeant matt at sergeant.org
Fri Feb 4 14:14:50 PST 2011


Mark Fowle wrote:
> line ends in windows tend to be \r\n.
> comp safely removes one line end character, as aposed to chop that 
> removed one cjharacter from the end of a line.
> so chomp$_; chomp $_; is safe and will work on any computer OS.
Right, but it won't do what the user wants, because chomp just removes 
whatever is in $/ which defaults to "\n".

It's strongly recommended to read the perlport man page if you have to 
use windows.

Matt.
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