in reply to When do you use chop instead of chomp?

I guess an appropriate place to use it would be when reading from STDIN when you are reasonably sure it is line terminated. 
print "Enter a url!:\n";
my $url = <STDIN>;
chop($url);

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In practice I NEVER use chop. Even though chomp is slower, I feel that with chop it's a lot easier to introduce subtle bugs. (Let's say you cut and paste a block of code.)

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

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Re^2: When do you use chop insetad of chomp?
by particle (Vicar) on Mar 03, 2002 at 06:05 UTC
    i use chop to rotate.

    my $val = 123;
$val = chop($val) . $val;
print $val;               # prints '312'

my $val = 'abc';
$val = chop($val) . $val;
print $val;               # prints 'cab'

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    ~Particle ;Þ

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[d/l]
      Pretty cool. Never would have ocurred to me. One of the things I love about Perl (besides making my life so much easier) is that even though I've used it every day for a few years there is still always something more to learn and one more way to do something..

      -Lee

      "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."
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