RE: archive2.pl and EOL

["Kendall P. Bullen" <kendall @ lists . tax . org>]

On Mon, 5 May 1997, Peter Bostrom wrote:

>      #substitute ends with 0-9 and = to nothing, and vice versa
>      $_=~s/=[0-9][0-9]$//;
>      $_=~s/=[0-9]$//;
>      $_=~s/=$//;

So, perhaps this would work:

s/=\d?\d?$//;

That should replace '=' followed by 0-2 digits, at the end of a line,
with nothing, using one substitution instead of three.

Kendall