NAME

Text::Chomp - a module implementing a portable chomp.

SYNOPSIS

    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use Text::Chomp;
    open FILE, "file.dat"
        or die "Unable to open file:  $!";
    while (<FILE>) {
        # Strip off any end of line character, not just $/
        my $line = tchomp $_;
        ...
    }
    close FILE;

DESCRIPTION

Text::Chomp implements a single function, tchomp, which will remove all known (by me, at least) line separators. chomp() works only on the value in $/, which can be difficult if working in multi-platform environments.

EXPORTS

tchomp() is the only function exported. Attempts to export other functions will cause the module to fail to load.

FUNCTIONS

TODO

Precompile the regular expression used for speed, and so that it can be accessed for split().

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-text-chomp@rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Original inspiration came from an ancient perlbug <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=1807>. #p5p provided some additional ideas regarding the Unicode (and a suggested name of Ch::omp). Finally, the "Perl Cookbook" had information on how to match the Unicode line and page separators.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2004 Steve Peters, All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.