On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Chas. Owens <chas.ow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 07:15, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshri...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Can someone please explain me with an example of the usage chomp ()
>> builtin function in perl.
> snip
>
> The chomp function removes whatever is in the $/ variable from the
> argument passed in (or $_ if no argument is passed in). The default
> value of $/ is "\n". It is often used after reading a line to remove
> the newline ("\n"):
>
Hi Chas
$/ variable is a line separator variable whereas $_ is a default
variable. Please explain me when you said no argument is passed
so what i understand is chomp $line means $line is a argument ?
Thanks
Kaushal
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