[ale] String -> Number

[Christopher Fowler]

Darn!

chomp() strips NL, Not CR's.  I've got a lingering CR on the end.  How
can I remove that one?


On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 14:14, John Wells wrote:
> So what does SPORT look like when you set $VERBOSE?
> 
> Christopher Fowler said:
> > Is there a formal method of converting a string to a number?  I'm
> > reading a line from a socket that is really a number.  I'm passing that
> > var as an argument to IO::Socket::INET but it fails connection.  By
> >
> > This works
> >
> >
> > #strip line terminateor off
> >     chomp($line);
> >     $SPORT = $line;
> >
> >     close($sock);
> >
> >     if($VERBOSE == 1) {
> >         print (STDOUT "Connecting to secondary server on port ", $SPORT,
> > "\n");
> >     }
> >
> >     my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
> >                                      PeerAddr => $SERVER,
> >                                      PeerPort => 783,
> >                                      Proto => 'tcp',
> >                                      );
> >     die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;
> >
> > This does not
> >     my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
> >                                      PeerAddr => $SERVER,
> >                                      PeerPort => $SPORT,
> >                                      Proto => 'tcp',
> >                                      );
> >     die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;
> >
> > I'm trying to write a portable logging program that will log output
> > received to a file.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
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