Re: newlines and sendmail

As a rule of thumb (correct me if I'm wrong here), try to use 'chomp' instead of chop, as chop merely kills the last character in the line, while chomp kills the last whitespace character (or none if the last character is alphanumeric).

Could you post a sample file to go with this?
Hope this helps!
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Re: Re: newlines and sendmail by ChemBoy (Priest) on Aug 17, 2001 at 04:39 UTC
Your rule of thumb is very true, but that's not quite how chomp works--it checks if the input ends with `$/` (the input record separator) and if so removes it. In Win32, for instance, the input record separator is "\r\n" (or perhaps more accurately "\015\012"). You can, of course, change $/ to whatever string you want, with interesting and sometimes comical results (and possibly useful obfuscatory tricks) that are left to the reader to discover. My favorite use of it is the implicit chomp in the -l command-line flag: `perl -lpe 'BEGIN{$/ = "\r\n"}' -i.bak filename.txt` (in unix) `perl -lp015 -e";" -i.bak filename.txt` (in Win32, if I remember correctly) which changes your line endings to match your platform. If God had meant us to fly, he would never have given us the railroads. --Michael Flanders	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: newlines and sendmail
by ChemBoy (Priest) on Aug 17, 2001 at 04:39 UTC

Your rule of thumb is very true, but that's not quite how chomp works--it checks if the input ends with $/ (the input record separator) and if so removes it. In Win32, for instance, the input record separator is "\r\n" (or perhaps more accurately "\015\012").

You can, of course, change $/ to whatever string you want, with interesting and sometimes comical results (and possibly useful obfuscatory tricks) that are left to the reader to discover. My favorite use of it is the implicit chomp in the -l command-line flag:

perl -lpe 'BEGIN{$/ = "\r\n"}' -i.bak filename.txt (in unix) perl -lp015 -e";" -i.bak filename.txt (in Win32, if I remember correctly)
which changes your line endings to match your platform.

If God had meant us to fly, he would *never* have given us the railroads.
--Michael Flanders

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