Whatever wrote the file in question tacked the carriage return onto the line in question. It didn't have to be a carriage return; it could have been a newline character instead, or both. (I think Windows uses just the carriage return, and UNIX uses both?) At any rate, the end-of-line termination may not always be a carriage return (\r), so removing only that may not be enough. Using the regular expression may not be enough, either, since it deals only with lines (unless you're using a '/m', as in tr/\r//m, I believe.

I guess I'd probably also chomp $bob, which should get rid of the line terminator too. I believe chomp only removes the character defined by $/, so the tr/\s// is still needed too.

In reply to Re: String handling frustrations by ginseng
in thread String handling frustrations by troll314

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