Re: how to chop last character from a string

well, if chop removed a \n then the last character of that string was \n. Why can't you just chop again? If that doesn't appeal to you you could do something like

$ARGV[0] =~ s/\*.*$//;
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That should do it too.

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Re^2: how to chop last character from a string by suaveant (Parson) on Jan 03, 2006 at 21:28 UTC
That will do a lot more than remove a trailing , if there is ever anything else after the ... - Ant - Some of my best work - (1 2 3)	[reply]
Re^2: how to chop last character from a string by bioMan (Beadle) on Jan 04, 2006 at 15:26 UTC
Rather than chopping twice a safer way would be to chomp first then chop. But, I like the regex solutions better than chopping Mike	[reply]