On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Michael Ellery
<mikee@[...].com>  wrote:
>  I would recommend either (1) don't chomp in the first place or (2) just
>  do print "$_\n".
> 
>  -Mike
> 
>  Barry Brevik wrote:
> > I am aware that there are a number of Perl "operations" that will use
> > the system variable $_ as the default variable if one is not supplied.
> >
> > Consider the following snippet (where XMLIN is a previously opened file
> > handle):
> >
> >
> >   foreach (<XMLIN>)
> >   {
> >     chomp;
> >
> >     # Do some stuff to the contents of the line.
> >
> >     print;
> >   }
> >
> > OK, what I really want to do here is print the (possibly changed) line,
> > AND a CR/LF, but to do that, I have to add a separate print statement
> > like this: print "\n";
> >
> > So after all these years, I'm wondering, is there a PERLish way to add a
> > "\n" in the same line of code that prints the default $_ variable?
> >

Starting from Perl 5.10 you can write the following

use 5.010;

say "hello world";


and it will print hello world with a newline at the end.

Gabor
http://szabgab.com/blog.html
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