Just doing an ego search, noticed this old thread. I think all of you have missed my point- I was trying to emulate perl's chop() function, *NOT* perl's chomp() function. I just called it chomp() in PHP as chop() is already taken.
Perl's chop() does two very important things (in my arrogant opinion):
-If given an array, it will chop() every element in the array
-It returns the character removed (leading to some while loops which certain people would murder you for using, and certain other people would go out of their way to use)
I guess calling it chomp() was a bad idea.. pretend I said "perl_chop()" instead.
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thebitman at comcast dot net
23-Jan-2004 05:39
23-Jan-2004 05:39
php at newmediaone dot com
01-Nov-2003 02:54
01-Nov-2003 02:54
The above notes are confusing 2 different Perl fuctions, chop and chomp.
In Perl, chop removes and returns the last charecter of a string. This function was often used in Perl <= version 4 to remove newlines, and in some cases, you'd think you were choping a new line, but if the last charecter wan't a newline, chop would still remove it.
As of Perl 5, chomp (note the "m") was introducted. Chomp removes the last character(s) of a string only if those chatecters are new lines, and it returns the number of characters deleted. (If the string ends in multiple newlines, they will all be choped off, and if the last charecter is not a new line, nothing will be choped off.)
So, I don't think either of the above examples quite duplicate Perl's chomp, but they are both very helpful.
zebadger@excite(dhot)com
04-Jun-2003 08:27
04-Jun-2003 08:27
The perl version of chomp only removes newlines. I modified the previous code to do that.
<?php
function chomp(&$string)
{
if (is_array($string))
{
foreach($string as $i => $val)
{
$endchar = chomp($string[$i]);
}
} else {
$endchar = substr("$string", strlen("$string") - 1, 1);
if ($endchar == "\n")
{
$string = substr("$string", 0, -1);
}
}
return $endchar;
}
?>
thebitman at attbi dot com
29-Apr-2003 07:24
29-Apr-2003 07:24
Actually, PHP's chop() acts just as perl's chomp(). The above user-contributed example does not act enough like perl's chop(), however. An important part of perl's chop() is that it returns the chop()ed character. Here's how to get perl-style chop()s [let's call it chomp() just to bring this whole mess full-circle]
<?php
function chomp(&$string)
{
if (is_array($string))
{
foreach($string as $i => $val)
{
$endchar = chomp($string[$i]);
}
} else {
$endchar = substr("$string", strlen("$string") - 1, 1);
$string = substr("$string", 0, -1);
}
return $endchar;
}
?>
bernard dot SPAM at mindfiredesign dot SPAM dot co dot uk
22-Jan-2002 05:23
22-Jan-2002 05:23
To get a perl style chop():
<?php
$foo = "bar";
$foo = substr("$foo", 0, -1);
echo $foo;
//returns "ba" (removes last character)
?>