Reference: chop
Author: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Date: 1999-07-02T01:34:22Z

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| Chapter 5 Function Reference |

## chop

    chop $var
    chop @list

Chops off the last character of a string contained in the variable $var (or strings in each element of a @list) and returns the character chopped. The `chop` operator is used primarily to remove the newline from the end of an input record, but is more efficient than `s/\n$//`. If no argument is given, the function chops the `$_` variable.

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