Equivalent of Perl chomp?

[A Meowbot]

aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:

> In article <86aduup3zu.fsf at k0dez.scriptkiddie.net>,
> A Meowbot  <meowbot at meowing.net> wrote:

>>Where things get yucky is when you are reading a Microsoft-formatted
>>file or a network stream under Unix, where there is no difference
>>between text and binary.  It's for those all-too-common cases that
>>both line endings need to be taken into account.
>>
>>I don't even want to talk about the Apple CR thing.
>
> How does Perl deal with this?

You can set $/ to change what string signifies an end of line, and
chomp will honor that.  This does, of course, require you to know
which line ending convention was used in the input.