Why doesn't chomp remove both CR/LF characters?

It removes $/. By default, $/ is "\n" which is a logical character that may differ from one platform to another. In MacPerl, "\n" equals "\015". On both Windows and Unix platforms "\n" equals "\012". But, on Windows, standard IO translates between "\n" and "\015\012" when the file is opened in text mode. (Which is why you have to use binmode for binary files... where you don't want that translation to take place.)

I don't really disagree with you. It seems that there'd be a lot less questions about it if chomp just removed all control characters from the end of the string. But changing its behavior now wouldn't really be doable, of course. And, it's easy enough to do what you want with a s///, so it's not really a big issue.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

In reply to Re^3: sprintf is printing unexepected output by sauoq
in thread sprintf is printing unexepected output by thezip

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