Re: Proposal: chop() dropped

[Tom Christiansen]

>I would actualy like to see chop expanded to allow a variable number of
>characters to be removed and a sister function to cut the head off. Yes I
>know you can do this with substr but sometimes when you want the performance
>and need to cut up a string into fields. Lets say the new function is called
>'take'.
>  while($str =<F>)
>     {
>     $head = take($str,40);
>     $tail = chop($str,40);
>     $middle = $str;
>     #assuming $str had 120 characters in it
>     }

>Just a thought....

The current syntax is more like chop(@), not chop($;$).

--tom