Re: How to chomp the last new line character from the file

truncate should do the job.

Note that you can get the size of a file using the -s operator.

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Re: How to chomp the last new line character from the file by ww (Archbishop) on Nov 24, 2011 at 13:04 UTC
Re `truncate` (at Re: How to chomp the last new line character from the file & Re: How to chomp the last new line character from the file): note that the relevant file MUST be writable. If you take the truncate doc (which doesn't mention my boldfaced qualifier above) as a complete and accurate statement, you'll miss something: the file in FILEHANDLE or EXPR must be writable. `truncate` will fail or appear to fail without explanation if the file is, for example, `flock`ed by another process, such as an editor -- or if FILEHANDLE or EXPR is opened for reading only (eg, `open ($fh, '<', "EXPR") ....` BrowserUk deserves credit here for observing that Perl's `truncate` may well be merely "a flimsy wrapper around the POSIX call of the same name" and for referring me to http://linux.die.net/man/2/truncate, q.v., for	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: How to chomp the last new line character from the file
by ww (Archbishop) on Nov 24, 2011 at 13:04 UTC

truncate

Re: How to chomp the last new line character from the file

note that the relevant file MUST be writable

If you take the truncate doc (which doesn't mention my boldfaced qualifier above) as a complete and accurate statement, you'll miss something: the file in FILEHANDLE or EXPR must be writable. truncate will fail or appear to fail without explanation if the file is, for example, flocked by another process, such as an editor -- or if FILEHANDLE or EXPR is opened for reading only (eg, open ($fh, '<', "EXPR") ....

BrowserUk deserves credit here for observing that Perl's truncate may well be merely "a flimsy wrapper around the POSIX call of the same name" and for referring me to http://linux.die.net/man/2/truncate, q.v., for

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