Anyone who tried to rely on carriege return (line completion) as an indication of file completion for commercial data provision would simply lose the business
Could you please point out where in the perl documentation is it stated that chop or chomp have anything to do with file completeness validation?
There is no instead of - chomp's functionality is professionally unacceptable from the start.
Sure - if you use it for the wrong purpose, and if you expect it to do things it doesn't. If a file has been checked for completeness and its lines were found suitable for chomp, then chomp is the right tool to use. It is not the other way round.
I'm looking forward to your rant on autovivification as another "professionally unacceptable functionality" in perl...
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