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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 8909 Volume: 10
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Wed Feb 1 09:05:36 2006
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 06:05:05 -0800 (PST)
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Perl-Users Digest Wed, 1 Feb 2006 Volume: 10 Number: 8909
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Re: How can I remove trailing commas? (Anno Siegel)
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Date: 1 Feb 2006 13:31:26 GMT
From: anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel)
Subject: Re: How can I remove trailing commas?
Message-Id: <drqd7e$n2v$2@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
A. Sinan Unur <1usa@llenroc.ude.invalid> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> Abigail <abigail@abigail.nl> wrote in
> news:slrndtsb68.e1.abigail@alexandra.abigail.nl:
> > $ perl -wle '$var = "foo,\nbar,"; $var =~ s/,$//m; print $var'
> > foo
> > bar,
>
> This seals it for me. I have now been converted to the PBP recommendation
> precisely which I can never remember what m and s modifiers do:
Here is how I keep them apart:
/s stands for "single". It modifies the behavior of a single item,
namely ".". /m stands for "multiple". It modifies the behavior of
multiple (two) items, namely "^" and "$".
Anno
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