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Hi, I have been reading the postings on chopm and chop. I am wondering
if one would use

while <INPUTFILE>
chomp;chop;
.....
....

what is the use of this, doesn't chomp already remove the end of line
delimiter whatevere that happens to be.


Thanks, Martin

martin wrote:
> Hi, I have been reading the postings on chopm and chop. I am
> wondering if one would use
>
> while <INPUTFILE>
> chomp;chop;

Well, sure, if for some odd reason you want to remove the last character of
the string...

>
> what is the use of this,

Nothing particularly useful.

> doesn't chomp already remove the end of line
> delimiter whatevere that happens to be.

Yeah, but chop() removes any trailing character, not just a \n.

jue

martin <> wrote:
> Hi, I have been reading the postings on chopm and chop. I am wondering
> if one would use
>
> while <INPUTFILE>


Please do not post pseudocode, post real Perl code, with parenthesis
and curlies and whatnot.


> chomp;chop;

> what is the use of this,


It removes the line ending sequence if one is present, and then
removes one more character from the end of $_.

ie. it doesn't appear to be of much general use at all.


> doesn't chomp already remove the end of line
> delimiter whatevere that happens to be.


Yes. (but newline is not a "delimiter")

Then chop() does what chop() does, namely removes whatever character
is now at the end.


--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas

martin wrote:
> Hi, I have been reading the postings on chopm and chop. I am wondering
> if one would use
>
> while <INPUTFILE> {
> chomp;chop;

That only makes sense if the input file is in DOS format and being
processed on a Unix-style system. Then chomp() would remove the
"\n" and chop() would remove the "\r". There are better ways.
-Joe