#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # 767362 my $out_line; my @line = ; for my $line (@line) { chomp $line; $out_line .= ( $line . "/" ); } if ( $out_line =~ /(.*)\/$/ ) { # capture everything before a slash immediately preceding EOL $out_line = $1; # and overwrite $out_line with what you captured } print $out_line . "\n"; __DATA__ 10 9999 456 ...