Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com To: Jason Tiller Cc: Subject: Re: 'chop' and text mounts References: From: Jon Ericson Date: 09 Mar 2001 02:11:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <86k85zhetc.fsf@jon_ericson.jpl.nasa.gov> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Jason Tiller writes: > I have a feeling this is an extremely trivial question, but it's > vexing to a relative newbie like me. I'm just starting to learn Perl, > and I've run into a problem chop'ping lines that are CR/LF terminated. 1) chop is strongly depreciated for this purpose. Use chomp instead. (It removes \n (or the value of $/) but nothing else.) 2) Neither perl nor cygwin add newlines when reading files. 3) Text/binary mounts are a red herring. 4) comp.lang.perl.misc is a better place to ask perl questions. (But read the FAQ first!) Jon -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple