On 28/07/2011 14:23, Khabza Mkhize wrote:
I want to substring words, I might be using wrong terminology. But I tried the following example the only problem I have it cut word any where it likes. eg "breathtaking" on my string is only bre. $string = "This is an awe-inspiring tour to the towering headland known as Cape Point. Magnificent beaches, breathtaking views, historic and picturesque coastal "; $rtioverview = substr ( $string , 0 , 100 ); Reults = "This is an awe-inspiring tour to the towering headland known as Cape Point. Magnificent beaches, bre"; any one can help to solve this problem please?
It depends what you mean by a 'word'. The 'split' operator will split a string on whitespace, but on that basis there are only twenty words in your sample string. Take a look at the program below. If it doesn't help you then please could you give an example showing what result you would expect from this data? Cheers, Rob use strict; use warnings; my $string = "This is an awe-inspiring tour to the towering headland known as Cape Point. Magnificent beaches, breathtaking views, historic and picturesque coastal "; my @words = split ' ', $string; print scalar @words, " words:\n"; for my $i (0 .. $#words) { printf "%3d: %s\n", $i, $words[$i]; } **OUTPUT** 21 words: 0: This 1: is 2: an 3: awe-inspiring 4: tour 5: to 6: the 7: towering 8: headland 9: known 10: as 11: Cape 12: Point. 13: Magnificent 14: beaches, 15: breathtaking 16: views, 17: historic 18: and 19: picturesque 20: coastal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/