simple question on perl

[Dpk]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:57:06PM -0400, Adam McDougall wrote:

   chop or chomp?

chomp *only* removes the trailing character if it is a newline and is
a good/safe replacement for chop in the case removing a carriage
return.

chop removes the last character regardless of what it is.

dpk

   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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   > Dan
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