From wells@cs.utk.edu Wed Jul 23 18:27:27 1997
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Hi,

> My tests indicate that 'chop' will remove the last character, new_line
> or not, from any variable ... is this correct?

That is correct.  However, if you're using perl 5 (which is on the system 
here somewhere but is not the default... do "perl -version" to see what 
version you are using), you can use a function called chomp(), which is
like a safer version of chop().  chomp() removes whatever is in the 
$/ (or the $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR) variable, which by default is \n.  If 
you're in paragraph mode, chomp() will remove all trailing newline characters.
Hope this helps...


-- Elton