If you are on a *nix-like environment you could look at the file using od to get an idea of what line terminator is actually being used. Failing that, write a quick script to read the first couple of hundred characters from your file into a buffer and then do something like

print qq{@{ [ ord $_ ] } => $_\n}
   for split m{}, $buffer;

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This will give you the ordinal value for each character and the character itself, one per line. You should be able to spot the line terminator from that. Then you could set $/ (see perlvar) to what you have found so that chomp will work.

I hope this is useful.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re: chomp not working by johngg
in thread chomp not working by djbryson

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