Question

I am new to perl and writing my first few programs and using its pattern matching abilities. I am reading a file into array like this:

@list=<file>

Then indexing each line of array by $list[0..9] etc, and when I match it against a pattern, the $list[0] includes \n character, hence the match fails. So if ($string =~ $list[0]) fails though without \n character in pattern it would match.

How do I tell pattern matcher to not consider the \n character from pattern?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can shave the line ends from the array after reading:

@lines = …;
chomp @lines;

Now @lines contains the lines without line ends. See perldoc chomp for details.