On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Rene Verharen wrote: > I need to delete the first character of a variable if this (and ONLY this) > character is a 0 (zero). > > What I tried : > > $text =~ s/01/1/; > $text =~ s/02/2/; > $text =~ s/03/3/; > etc... > > Not what I want, because it also deletes the 0 (zero) if it is NOT the > first character.
$text =~ s/^0//; -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MMM-MM!! So THIS is BIO-NEBULATION! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]