so, uh... i wanna go back to linux

[raublekick]

Originally Posted by johnny

perl isn't that nasty. the problem is that it allows people to make it nasty.. you can do some really weird one-liners. i think my perl code is pretty readable. chomp is just a built-in function :P

yeah but... chomp just doesn't make sense! how does chomp == remove \n from end of line? my first inclination was that MAYBE chomp "chomped" a line from a text file, but the newline thing just comes out of nowhere.