Perl : Is there a better way to print a substring value ?

[brittany1]

print substr($thevar,0,-4);
 print "\n";

The above gives me what I want. But it seems that theres a better way.

print "\n", substr($thevar,0,-4);

Doesnt give me what I want.

Thanks in advance for any help !!

 

[yelworcm]

I am not sure I see what the difference is. What is it that you want?

 

[1DMF]

print "\n", substr($thevar,0,-4);

is printing in list context so outputs the newline then the substring, where as

print substr($thevar,0,-4);
 print "\n";

is two separate statements executed linearly (one after the other), so the newline is output second after the substring.



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