thanks Guy and of course you're right if they irritate my sense of code style, I can just wrap them up. Just thought I'd ask in case I missed something. John
Guy Morton wrote: > I don't think so...I've never seen one, but what's hard about using > String.replace? Aren't the following functionally equivalent? > > //perl's chomp > String.replace(/[\r\n]*$/); > > //perl's chop > String.replace(/.$/); > > I guess if you really care, you could extend the String class to add > them? > > Guy > >

