Equivalent of Perl chomp?

[Steve Holden]

"Paul Watson" <pwatson at mail.com> wrote ...
> Perl chomp only removes -all- traliing newlines when in paragraph mode.
> Paragraph mode is when $/ is set to "".  The default mode is not paragraph
> mode, so chomp removes only one (1) newline.
>
> === code
> $s = "now\n\n\n";
> print "length($s) = ".length($s)."\n";
> chomp($s);
> print "length($s) = ".length($s)."\n";
>
> === output
> length(now
>
>
> ) = 6
> length(now
>
> ) = 5
>
Maybe we shoud ask the guys on c.l.perl about this [ducks and runs]

regards
 Steve
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