simple question on perl
Sean
picasso@madflower.com
Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:49:24 -0400 (EDT)
It would actually be:
$one_char = chop($string) ;
or
$one_char = substr ($string -1, 1);
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Dpk wrote:
> 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?
> >
> > ___
> > Dan
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