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in reply to Chomp is removing the whole word instead of the newline

From the docs:

It (chomp) returns the total number of characters removed from all its arguments

So   my $var = chomp ($row[1]); is not doing what you expect it to do.

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Re^2: Chomp is removing the whole word instead of the newline
by slayedbylucifer (Scribe) on Jul 25, 2012 at 09:51 UTC
    You know what, i did read exact same line in the documentation but I think i did not interpret it correctly. thanks for your time.
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