chop and chomp Functions with Lists : chop chomp « Array « Perl

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chop and chomp Functions with Lists

   

The chop function chops off the last character of a string and returns the chopped character
The chomp function removes the last character of each element in a list if it ends with a newline and returns the number of newlines it removed.

# Chopping and chomping a list
@line=("red", "green", "orange");
chop(@line);   # Chops the last character off each string in the list
print "@line";
@line=( "red", "green", "orange");
chomp(@line);  # Chomps the newline off each string in the list
print "@line";

   
    
    
  

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