On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:29:40PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote:
> Frankly, it's just a quick question: in perl, is there a way of
> doing something like ${var:x:y}, x and y being numbers, the starting
> point and the lenght to be printed?
It sounds like you want substr. Assuming $var is a scalar, then
substr($var, $x, $y)
returns a substring of length $y of $var, beginning with position $x.
For example, if you have
$var = "abcdefg";
then
substr($var, 2, 3)
returns "cde".
Like most other things in Perl, there are a number of different ways
to call substr. See "perldoc -f substr" for more information.
Walt
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