Re3: otherwise condition

the chop is used to get rid of a semicolon that is always at the end of the pattern.

I would recommend either commenting that it is removing a semi-colon or using a pattern match to get rid of it, along the lines of $line =~ s/;$//;. Unless this is a script which has to execute in a specific amount of time, self-commenting code is much better than fast code.

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Re: Re3: otherwise condition by menolly (Hermit) on Aug 25, 2003 at 18:30 UTC
Or just drop the chop altogether and use `$chain=substr($line,length($line)-2,1);` [download] instead of `$chain=substr($line,length($line)-1,1);` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]