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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2004-01-23 18:03:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2004-01-23 18:03:41 +0000 |
| commit | 442a8c128e085eacd56278a9e7cc5b0e6e864660 (patch) | |
| tree | cb8ac1667b09fafea1136e0e8813f36e794ee5ac /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 0a61292d87a3ad96dcd4c6518e0d39ab9feb225d (diff) | |
| download | perl-442a8c128e085eacd56278a9e7cc5b0e6e864660.tar.gz | |
Document chomp's travels in the wonderful world of use encoding;
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22199
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 54b08c88d4..d7912b1c35 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -661,6 +661,10 @@ You can actually chomp anything that's an lvalue, including an assignment: If you chomp a list, each element is chomped, and the total number of characters removed is returned. +If the C<encoding> pragma is in scope then the lengths returned are +calculated from the length of C<$/> in Unicode characters, which is not +always the same as the length of C<$/> in the native encoding. + Note that parentheses are necessary when you're chomping anything that is not a simple variable. This is because C<chomp $cwd = `pwd`;> is interpreted as C<(chomp $cwd) = `pwd`;>, rather than as |