Chop Vs Chomp

Now, we discuss about Chop & Chomp functionality in Perl

Chop:

It removes the last character of the string completely (even if the last character is new line or a character)

Chomp:

It only removes the last character if it is a newline. 

Chomp is more useful when we are reading the files to trim the new line characters

Chop: It removes the last character of the string completely

E.g., chop_test.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use warnings;

$name = "Mother Teresa";

print "Name before chop: " . $name;  

chop($name); 

print "Name after chop: " . $name;  

O/P:

Name before chop : Mother Teresa

Name after chop    : Mother Teres

Chomp: It only removes the last character if it is a newline. 

E.g., chomp_test.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use warnings;

$name = "Mother Teresa\n";

print "Name before chomp: " . $name;  

chomp($name); 

print "Name after chomp: " . $name;  

O/P:

Name after chomp: Mother Teresa

Name after chomp: Mother Teresa