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Stephen Redding BT Ignite Solutions Telephone - 0113 237 3393 Fax - 0113 244 1413 Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technet.bt.com/sit/public/ British Telecommunications plc Registered office: 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ Registered in England no. 1800000 This electronic message contains information from British Telecommunications plc which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic message in error, please notify us by telephone or email (to the numbers or address above) immediately. -----Original Message----- From: David vd Geer Inhuur tbv IPlib [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 14:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to get number of characters from var? Hi, I have a question about determine how many charactars contain a var. Does anyone know, there will probably be a simple command, but I can't find it. Assuming $_ = /hello/this/will/have/to/be/IMPORTANT/ONLY/AND/CAN/BE/LONG/features.txt $dir = substr("$_", 0, -13); ## Remove features.txt $link = substr("$dir", 27); ## Remove the not used and already defined $base @href = split(/\//, $link); ## put this in an array $lineteller = ( scalar(@href) -1 ); ## To determine the last word $href = "$href[${lineteller}]"; ## and make $href this last one $nhref = ???($href); ?? Determine number of characters $header = substr("$link", 0, -${nhref}); ## Use it to def $header without $href So what I need out of $_ : $dir = "/hello/this/will/have/to/be/IMPORTANT/ONLY/AND/CAN/BE/LONG"; $link = "/IMPORTANT/ONLY/AND/CAN/BE/LONG"; $href = "LONG"; $header = "/IMPORTANT/ONLY/AND/CAN/BE/"; I know there is a faster way to get the last value of an aray, but I don't know exactly how anymore (help is welcome). The most important now is, how do I get the number of charactars out of $href ?? Thanks for your help in adance !! Regs David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
