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How not to remove trailing empty strings from an array

by ambrus (Abbot)
on Apr 16, 2013 at 10:54 UTC ( [id://1028872]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Just a quick note to document a funny error.

I tried to remove trailing empty strings from an array of strings with the following code.

pop @msgstr while !length($msgstr[-1]);

This didn't work. Can you guess why? Solution under the fold.

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Re: How not to remove trailing empty strings from an array
by Neighbour (Friar) on Apr 16, 2013 at 14:32 UTC
      Nope, I suppose ambrus also wants to strip trailing ...
      ... undefs

      Cheers Rolf

      ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

Re: How not to remove trailing empty strings from an array
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 16, 2013 at 17:17 UTC

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