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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 ( [id://65351]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: help with (what I consider) a strange problem
in thread help with (what I consider) a strange problem

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";

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prints "3".

(edited: error in my code fixed)

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