----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Amick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 9:15 PM Subject: Re: Reverse of Chomp
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:49:45 +0000, you wrote: > > >Is there a way to reverse chop/chomp > > > >I'm reading <STDIN> into an array, then > > chomping off the last character of each of the > > array elements. > > > >Now I'd like to write the array back out > > to <STDOUT>, but I want to put the \n's back between > > each of the lines. > > You've gotten a number of good suggestions. Let me throw out another > idea: > > $" = "\n"; > print "@array\n"; > > No doubt someone will tell me how dreadful that is. :-) I also agree > with the poster who asked why you chomped in the first place; is there > really no way to work with the data with the newlines present? well if that's dreadful then this is at least as bad :-): $,="\n"; print @array,""; In any case, I've run into lots of situations where I have to chomp the input data such as file / directory names or hash keys (of course I don't know how often I print back out the same thing I'm reading?). I use the -l command line switch to get this behavior in simple one-liners from the command line but that won't help here... > > -- > Eric Amick > Columbia, MD > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
