At 01:34 PM 6/11/02 -0700, I wrote:
>At 04:26 PM 6/11/02 -0400, Alaric Joseph Hammell wrote:
>
>>How would I get rid of one trailing white space character in
>>$HASH{$key} and reassign the result
>
>If you're certain that the last character is a space:
>
> chop $HASH{$key};
>
>If it might not be a space, and you only want to get rid of the last
>character if it is a space:
>
> $HASH{$key} =~ s/ $//;
Oops, I missed the "white" part of "white space". Then the question is
whether you intend "white space" to include newline. Assuming you don't
(which is Perl's definition of "white space"), then:
$HASH{$key} =~ s/\s$//;
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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