[ale] String -> Number

[Geoffrey]

perldoc -f chop ????

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 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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