On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:54:46PM -0400, 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? The easiest way: chop("line"); or chop($variable); dpk