Hello Rory,
Saturday, August 25, 2001, Rory O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ROC> thanks all for your help. It is my understanding that chomp($var); will
ROC> only strip the \n from the end of a string. I'm dealing with strings
ROC> that could potentially be littered with newline characters.
well... then you have multiple strings stored in one variable? yes,
chomp won't help you here.
ROC> I have an
ROC> o'reilly perl book, but it's not super clear on how to strip *all*
ROC> newline characters out of a string, no matter where they are. am i
ROC> right in assuming regex needed for this?
in perl way, yes. something like
$a="a\nb\nc\nd\n\n\n";
$b=$/;
$a =~ s/$b//g;
alternativelly, you can take a look at
perldoc -f substr
Best wishes,
Maxim mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
p.s. does anyone know, why i can not write "$a =~ s/$///g;" ?
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