Re: [MacPerl] Read Speed

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 11.23 12/15/97, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:
>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.  :-)

Ah, I was wrong on both (can you tell I never check the return values of
these?).  chop() does return the value chop'ed, and chomp() returns the
number of characters chomp'ed off.

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