Re: help with (what I consider) a strange problem

You are assigning the return value of chomp() to $_ ... and chomp() returns whatever it chomped off the end of the string, not the chomped string.

updateMy bad ... chomp() returns the number of characters chomped off --- it seems Text::Bastardize has a problem with digits and hangs, at least that's what I get with this example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Text::Bastardize;
my $latin = Text::Bastardize->new();
$latin->charge('blah 10 ');
print $latin->pig(),"\n"
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seems like a bug in Bastardize to me.

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Re: Re: help with (what I consider) a strange problem by sachmet (Scribe) on Mar 19, 2001 at 07:26 UTC
Nope... chomp returns number of chars chopped. So: `$t = "t\n"; $num = chomp($t); print "$num"` prints "1", whereas: `$t = "t"; $num = chomp($t); print "$num"` prints "", whereas: `@t = ("t\n","u\n","v","w\n"); $num = chomp(@t); print "$num";` [download] prints "3". (edited: error in my code fixed)	[reply] [d/l] [select]