Difference between chomp and chop : chop chomp « String « Perl






  1. Perl
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  3. chop chomp

Difference between chomp and chop

   

#!C:/perl/bin

$/ = "\n";
$stringvalue = "This is a string \n";
chomp $stringvalue;
print "The string that had a newline character becomes: $stringvalue";
print " and this is a following string\n\n";

$stringvalue = "This is a string";       # note no \n in the string
chomp $stringvalue;
print "The string that had NO newline character becomes: $stringvalue";
print " and this is a following string\n\n";








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