PERL Beginners - using chomp with array element.

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using chomp with array element.

pipehappy

2007-02-28, 6:59 pm

Hi

I have a sample like this.

@fs = `ls -p`;
$haha = $fs[1];
chomp($haha);
print $haha;
print "\n";
print $fs[1];
print chomp($fs[1]);

and the output is:

2006/
2006/
1

Could someone please explain me that the final result is not the
expected value 2006/ but the 1. It is not what I expect. Thanks.

usenet@DavidFilmer.com

2007-02-28, 6:59 pm

On Feb 28, 2:56 pm, "pipehappy" <pipeha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> print chomp($fs[1]);

chomp() acts on the variable but returns the total number of
characters that were chompped. So chomp() chompped off a newline (one
character) and returned that value to your print statement.

You would need to chomp the variable and then print its value, such
as:

chomp($fs[1]);
print $fs[1];

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