RE: chomp operator

Hi,


Hello,

so where does the chomp operator plays its role, can some one
explain me here with a sample of code.

Thanks and Regards

Kaushal


One place where chomp() comes in handy is when you're reading from a
file.
Usually a line read from a file will have a newline at the end.

The terminating new line may get in the way of your processing, here's a
contrived example:

my $foo = 'some text to append to line\n';
open my $TESTFILE, '<', '/some/test/file') or die;
while ( defined (my $line = <TESTFILE>) ) {

# $line contains 'Some arbitrary text \n'
print $line, $foo;
}

Without a 'chomp $line' the program will print:
Some arbitrary text
some text to append to line

Instead of:
Some arbitrary text some text to append to line

as was probably intended.

HTH

richf
.

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