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Asked: 2026-05-11T16:31:37+00:00

I am writing a script on my personal machine which is connected to the

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I am writing a script on my personal machine which is connected to the remote server. I think the remote server has Perl 4.0 or lesser version installed and that is why it is unable to recognize the same. Is there an alternative to the chomp command?

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    It’s not an exact replacement, but you could try:

    $var =~ s/\r?\n?$//

    which will strip either CRLF (DOS), LF (Unix), CR (Mac?).

    The normal chomp operator always strips out the currently defined $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR for the current O/S.

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