Re^2: Strings mangled on printing

[atcroft]

            $rt = $inp;
            chomp $rt;    # insert at line 23
            $rt =~ s/Remote Temp://;

chomp() would probably be more appropriate, since it removes (from the docs) "any trailing string that corresponds to the current value of $/ (also known as $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR in the 'English' module)", and $/ can be set to the appropriate value if there is a difference in line endings/separators (such as "\n" vs. "\r" vs "\r\n" vs. ...).

Hope that helps.

[roboticus]

atcroft:

Normally, I'd agree with you, but since the data is coming over a serial port, I wouldn't expect the line endings to be consistent with those used on whatever platform runs the code. So in this case, I'd prefer explicit removal of junk from the end.

...roboticus

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