My first impression was that he wanted the first hundred characters
rounded off to the previous or next full word. It sounded like he wanted
smart line breads at the word boundaries.
Bob McConnell
From: timothy adigun
> I get the point you are making here, if you check the subroutine "sub
> checkStr{}" you see dat it confirm what you are pointing out. However,
I
> think the point there is the number of words the programmers wants!
[Khabza,
> correct me if am wrong].
> Since, split function as indicated will remove the space and just
count
> words then, the string indicated in the original mail will be 21 not
100!
> Maybe like you said it all depends on what Khabza means as "word" - a
single
> alphabeth or a collection of alphabeth to make words!
> For me, in context of the original mail I think Khabza wants words but
> counted in alphabeths!
> lol!
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Rob Dixon <rob.di...@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>> 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
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