left character

[Oostwijk]

How to retrieve the left character of the value from variable $line and store that character in a variable named $charact

 

[siberian]

by 'left character' do you mean 'the first character'?

Esay way is

my @characters = split($line);
my $char = $characters[0];

split() without a specification splits the characters into an array.

 

[raklet]

Or you can do a substring on it:

my $string = "Hello";
my $char = substr($string,0,1);
print $char;

 

[Oostwijk]

thanks Raklet, that works fine/