cgi string functions 1

[richy]

I'm working on some code in Perl, but require the same function as right or substring in vb which takes a certain amount of characters from the right of the string but can't find it anywhere. Can anybody help?

 

[goBoating]

Try 'substr'. It will pick any number of chars from anywhere in the string going forward or backward.

For more detail, do,
perldoc -f substr


HTH


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[tsdragon]

If you want to take x characters from the right end of a string use a negative offset, like this:

$right10 = substr($string, -10);

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