removes any trailing string that corresponds to the current value of $/ Maybe this is problem due to my poor english but with 'any' i supposed to be 'all accurences' not the last one.

ok, I see where you're coming from :) this is one of the deals with documentation as free form prose ... its free form prose :)

The current value of $/ is "\n" it is not "\n\n", does that make sense to you? with a valid $/ chomp only chomps once

Consider this as chomp documentation :) 2,4,4,0,0 :) 

use Data::Dump qw/ dd /;
$f = $g = "a\n\n";  dd( chomp( $f, $g ) ); dd( $f, $g );
$/ = "\n\n";  $f = $g = "a\n\n";  dd( chomp( $f, $g ) ); dd( $f, $g );
$/ = "";  $f = $g = "a\n\n";  dd( chomp( $f, $g ) ); dd( $f, $g );
$/ = undef;  $f = $g = "a\n\n";  dd( chomp( $f, $g ) ); dd( $f, $g );
$/ = \333;  $f = $g = "a\n\n";  dd( chomp( $f, $g ) ); dd( $f, $g );
__END__
2
("a\n", "a\n")
4
("a", "a")
4
("a", "a")
0
("a\n\n", "a\n\n")
0
("a\n\n", "a\n\n")

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In reply to Re^4: Assigning the result of a chomp to the chomped var itself. by Anonymous Monk
in thread Assigning the result of a chomp to the chomped var itself. by choroba

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