sybperl-l Archive

From: Bob Willmot <bwillmot at drms_dev6 dot sbi dot com>
Subject: Re: trailing commas in result set
Date: Oct 6 1997 2:53PM

John Gilmore-Baldwin  writes:
 > Perhaps I'm missing something, but shouldn't the command be:
 > 
 > $row{$key} =~ s/,$//; #remove comma at end of string
 > 
 > Where does the "\+" come in?  This would cause it to search for a comma
 > followed by a plus sign anywhere in the string.

well I meant

$row{$key} =~ s/,+$//;

the plus is to pick up 1 or more commas (since the original mail
mentioned commas - not comma)

It shouldn't be escaped (\+) since that would match a literal '+' a
the end of the string.


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