Re^3: Comparing strings works in Windows but not Linux

chomp will not be enough to remove whitespace at the end of the line if your text file was created on a Windows machine (or with Windows line endings) and is then used on a Unix machine (or with Unix line endings). Use a regular expression to strip all whitespace from the end of the line(s):

$negWord =~ s/\s+$//;
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Re^4: Comparing strings works in Windows but not Linux by Anonymous Monk on Nov 07, 2010 at 17:52 UTC
Thank you, that worked for me, I appreciate it,	[reply]