simple question on perl

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

doesnt work...al that does is remove the last character....



On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:58:12PM -0400, Dpk spake:

> 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

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