Name
chomp
Synopsis
chomp $var chomp @list
Removes any line-ending characters of a string in
$
var
, or each string in @
list
, that
correspond to the current value of $/
(not just any last character, as
chop
does). chomp
returns the number of characters
deleted. If $/
is empty (in
paragraph mode), chomp
removes
all newlines from the selected string (or strings, if chomp
ing a list). If no argument is
given, the function chomp
s the
$_
variable.
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