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Tom Christiansen writes: : >When I said, "I talked to" I meant that. I don't need the pointer - I know : >how to handle it. But I wind up answering questions from people who do : >not. In my experience most of them use chomp() so the confusion is : >preventable. (After all you expect chomp() to get rid of line endings, : >right?) : : I expect chomp() to remove one and only one terminating instance of the : precise string to which $/ has been set; no more, no less. What were : you expecting? I expect people to expect Perl to do the right thing. LarryThread Previous | Thread Next