On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 03:20, Dr.Ruud <rvtol+use...@isolution.nl> wrote: > On 2011-01-15 08:52, Emeka wrote: > >> rmicro@RMICRO-PC C:\Program Files\xampp >> # perl -le '$str = "the cat sat on the mat";print substr( $str, 4, -4 )' >> Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1. > > On Windows it should probably look like: > > # perl -wle "$s=q{abc def ghi jkl};print substr($s,4,-4)" > > (untested) > > -- > Ruud
That worked for me on the Windoze console. Ken Wolcott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/