[Israel.pm] how do i cut the first 2 characters/digits of a string?

[Yossi Klein]

Or, even better

$x = substr ($str, 0, 2, '');

will chop off the first two chars from $str and assign
it to $x. I don't think that's too obfuscated :-)

If you're only interested in chopping and not getting
the 2 chars, you might consider doing:

substr ($str, 0, 2) = undef;

which I think more clearly shows that you're deleting
the first 2 chars. You can't combine like:

$x = substr ($str, 0, 2) = undef;

because $str will get chopped before the assignment to
$x and then $x will actually get the third and fourth
char (which although wrong, is pretty cool if you
think about it).

Yossi


--- Gabor Szabo <gabor at pti.co.il> wrote:
> 
> print substr($str,0,2) will get you the 2 chars
> substr($str,0,2,"") will remove the first two chars.
> 
> 
> Yehuda, a few notes:
> - It might be better to write your questions in the
> body of the e-mail and
>   not the subject line. Use the subject line only
> for general idea what is
>   your mail about.
> 
> - This question (and the previous one you had)
>   could perfectly fit to the starter list too
> 
>   http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/starter
> 
>   Your are welcome to post such questions there.
> 
> 
> Gabor
> 
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