Re: Carrige Return and Line Feed in Perl.

Slightly off-topic, but I got fed up with chomp because I work on files that were generated on e.g. UNIX and then transferred to Windows or vice versa (thanks vendors). These days instead of chomp I use something like $line =~ s/(?:\012)|(?:\015)//g; to get rid CRs and LFs when reading files in.

Update: BTW, nice series of questions and welcome to PM!!

Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks

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Re^2: Carrige Return and Line Feed in Perl. (s/\s+$//) by tye (Sage) on Mar 02, 2011 at 03:46 UTC
`s/\s+$//` [download] Much better than chomp. Trailing whitespace should never be significant, so don't let it be. - tye	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Carrige Return and Line Feed in Perl. (s/\s+$//) by Argel (Prior) on Mar 02, 2011 at 22:44 UTC
That's a very good point. If it did matter it would be a rare/edge case, so just getting rid of the extra whitespace by default makes sense!! Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks	[reply]
Re^3: Carrige Return and Line Feed in Perl. (s/\s+$//) by dannyd (Sexton) on Mar 02, 2011 at 12:09 UTC
Will be trying/reading all the suggestions/links. Things are a lot clearer now, thank you all for the insight.	[reply]