"R. Joseph Newton" wrote: > > "Leaw, Chern Jian" wrote: > > > > $currDir = `pwd`; > > chomp($currDir); > > Don't use chomp here. The chomp function is for situations where > you may not know whether a line is terminated by a newline. You > just assigned a value to pwd, so it is pointless to then chomp it.
The output from running a command in backticks will have newlines although in scalar context it could have more then just one at the end. $ perl -le'$x = `pwd`; print $x =~ tr/\n//; $x = `ls -l`; print $x =~ tr/\n//;' 1 236 John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
