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From: gatech!skeeve!arnold@harvard.harvard.edu (Arnold D. Robbins)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:34:13 -0500
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To: Chris Siebenmann <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: today's rc programming challenge
Cc: rc@archone.tamu.edu
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>  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