Re: the chomp does not seem to work

I can reproduce the behaviour on my linux box using windows format text files, that is lines end with "\r\n". It works as expected when the line endings are just "\n" on linux

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Re^2: the chomp does not seem to work by Skeeve (Parson) on Mar 11, 2008 at 12:35 UTC
That's why I usually use `$line=~tr/\015\012//d`. This removes any CR and LF from $line. It works fine as long as you don't care for empty lines. `s$$([},&%#}/&/]+}%&{});#$&&s&&$^X.($'^"%]=\&(\|?{%` `+`.+=%;.#_}\&"^"-+%*).}%:##%}={~=~:.")&e&&s""`$''`"e	[reply] [d/l] [select]