in reply to replace comma at the end of my query

Why use a regex when chop will do? Assuming, of course, you know the last character in your string will always be a comma.

Otherwise this will work: 
$query =~ s/,$//;

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Re: Re: replace comma at the end of my query
by PodMaster (Abbot) on May 09, 2003 at 22:10 UTC
    s/chop/substr/ 
    substr($query, -1,1)='' if substr($query, -1,1) eq ',';

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    *note, I use substr($query, -1,1)='' instead of substr($query, -1,1,'') cause you never know how old the perl is ;)

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