parse a simple string 1

[wcman]

$_ = "Hello World";
How do I remove "Hello" from the string?
I want to transform variable to $_ = "World"

Thanks,

Wcman

 

[Geekatron]

Several ways to do that, but the easiest is a regular expression:

$_ =~ s/Hello //;

--G

 

[Geekatron]

It occurs to me you probably would like a more general expression to remove the first word from any string:

$_ =~ s/^.+? //; # removes first word and space from $_

--G

 

[wcman]

Thanks G, Actually I wanted it to parse a line like below where the first two words get removed and replaced by space.
$_ = "05/06/2004 19:53:32 BEGINNING OF STATS";

Remove 05/06/2004 19:53:32
and leave: BEGINNING OF STATS


Thank you,
Wcman

 

[Geekatron]

Ah. Helps if you post the actual problem first.

You can just extend my first regex to do what you want:

$_ =~ s/^.+? .+? //; # removes first 2 words from $_

--G