note Lawliet <c> my $line = <STDIN>; chomp $line; </c> <p>Can be written <c>chomp(my $line = <STDIN>);</c> ;D</p> <p>Anyway, a pet peeve of mine would be people writing a program in Perl as if they were writing a program in C (or C++, etc). I.e., using C-style for loops when a foreach would work much better. Or, something even more annoying, putting the curlies in the same vertical column~</p> <c> for (my $i = 0; $i < $#names; $i++) { print $names[$i]; } </c> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-694676"> <small><p>I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!</p><p>chomp; # nom nom nom</p></small> </div></div> 728569 728569