Re^2: Chop command that removes the first character

Hi!

Chop removes only whitespace...

What you mean is chomp. chop removes any character.

EDIT: TedPride: Please don't just delete what you wrote. Now nobody knows what I have been talking about ... as usual :)

mawe

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Re^3: Chop command that removes the first character by tachyon (Chancellor) on Oct 26, 2004 at 09:56 UTC
Because you have quoted it we know what was there. As a minor pedant chomp will remove any char that corresponds to $/ aka the $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR. For example if you undef $/ but don't localise (or restore) it chomp will mysteriously fail. Not only that it is a global..... cheers tachyon	[reply]