Re^2: Chop command that removes the first character

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Re^3: Chop command that removes the first character by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 26, 2004 at 10:26 UTC
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! :) Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply]
Re^3: Chop command that removes the first character by Anonymous Monk on Oct 26, 2004 at 14:51 UTC
`sub chimp (@) {s!^$/+!! for (@_ ? @_ : $_)}` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Chop command that removes the first character by tachyon (Chancellor) on Oct 27, 2004 at 02:16 UTC
Now get that included in CORE, surely it belongs in the (development) tree.	[reply]
Re^3: Chop command that removes the first character by ihb (Deacon) on Mar 10, 2005 at 12:49 UTC
`chomp()` does not remove all trailing record separators, just one. The special case is paragraph mode where all trailing newlines are removed. When in fixed-length record mode (`$/ = \$some_int`) or slurp mode (`$/ = undef`) `chomp()` does nothing. All these special cases aren't handled by `&chimp`. Also, the return value isn't analoguous with `chomp()`'s. `ihb` See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read!	[reply] [d/l] [select]