simple question on perl

[Jay Pike]

chop() or chomp() removes the last character, but I don't think you GET
just that last character.

I like regexs, so I was thinking something like:

$variable =~ s/.*(.)$/$1/;

jp

Adam McDougall wrote:
> 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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