on Mon, 27 May 2002 12:57:20 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Heiko Heggen) wrote: > $mystring = "hello this is a string "; > $chop($mystring); > > the chop command is what you are looking for I think. > Just try it out.
No it isn't. From 'perldoc -f chop': chop Chops off the last character of a string and returns the character chopped. And you don't want a '$' in front of 'chop'. (Why didn't you try it out yourself if you were not sure ;-) Sudarsan Raghavan already provided the correct solution (s/\s+$//). -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]