According to Chris Nandor: > > Third, chop/chomp returns 1 if successful, 0 if not; it does not return the > string. So if you did C<print OUT chomp($_);>, you would get 1 or 0, not > the line. Ummmmm...... I don't know about CHOMP, but I remember reading that CHOP returns the character it chops off. Not 1 or 0. I would believe that CHOMP would return a 0 or 1 because the chopped off character either is or isn't a control character. :-) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch