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From: gatech!skeeve!arnold@harvard.harvard.edu (Arnold D. Robbins)
To: Chris Siebenmann <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Cc: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: today's rc programming challenge
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:34:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9204170734.AA11086@skeeve.ATL.GA.US> (raw)

>  Given: a string in a variable.
>  Wanted: the same string but without the newline on the end
> 
>  Challenge: how, in the (possible) presence of any character except binary
> 0 in the string, do to this? Bonus points awarded for the shortest solution,
> the most efficient solution, and one that can be stuck in a function.


	x='foo
	'
	x=`{tr -d '
	' <<< $x}

	fn stripnl { ret=() {
		ret=`{tr -d '
	' <<< $1
		return ret
	}}

Arnold


             reply	other threads:[~1992-04-17 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1992-04-17 12:34 Arnold D. Robbins [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1992-04-17 13:23 rsalz
1992-04-16 22:11 Chris Siebenmann
1992-04-17 11:07 ` Robert Earl

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