Using chop / chomp to remove spaces and tabs

[perl_begi]

I am having a file that contains different strings, which in turn are name of folders.

For example test. file has:
test0002
intel/drivers/

Here there can be spaces, tabs after folder names (like we can place space after test0002 or it may happen when you edit file in notepad and use same in Unix test0002 becomes test0002^M).

I used chop and chomp to do it. What I did was I read all contents in array then I did chop (or chomp) for each element of array but nothing works. I m unable to remove extra spaces, tabs.

How can this be done to get desired result?

[eWish]

Chomp function.
Chop function.

You could use a regex to remove the spaces or tabs.
[CODE=perl]my $test =~ s/\n//g; #removes newline
$test = s/\t//g; #removes tab

#Remove Leading and Trailing Whitespace
my $test =~ s/^\s+//;
$test =~ s/\s+$//;[/CODE]

--Kevin

[KevinADC]

I used chop and chomp to do it. What I did was I read all contents in array then I did chop (or chomp) for each element of array but nothing works. I m unable to remove extra spaces, tabs.

How can this be done to get desired result?

chop removes the last character from a string/line, chomp removes the input record seperator (usually a newline) from a string/line. Not sure why you thought either of those functions was appropriate for what you are doing. See Kevins post above.