simple question on perl

Adam McDougall mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu
Fri, 1 Sep 2000 14:57:06 -0400 (EDT)


chop or chomp?

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Daniel R . Kilbourne wrote:

> Call me a perl idiot, but how do I remove the last character from a string?
> 
> I will need to pull the last character from a line such as:
> 
> 3.3219333333e+02  (I need to get the 2 in this case)
> 
> the string will always be of constant length.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
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