I do a lot of work in Windows (Cygwin), macOS, and Linux, and I have a Subversion repository containing a bunch of dotfiles I use on all three platforms. As a result I do, in fact, wind up getting a nice healthy mix of CRLF and LF line endings in all environments I work in. Because of that, $/ = "\r\n"; won't work.

Also, I can confirm that chomp in Cygwin perl will only remove \n from lines in text files with CRLF line endings ($/ is \n by default).

I just now learned about \R which *will* do the trick:

s{\R\z}{};

As an added bonus it will also work with old Macintosh line endings (\r)!

I honestly don't know why chomp doesn't do this in the year of our lord two thousand eighteen, other than backward combatibility.

In reply to Re: Why chomp() is not considering carriage-return by dse
in thread Why chomp() is not considering carriage-return by jesuashok

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