Re: substr or anything like that

[Felix Geerinckx]

on Wed, 04 Sep 2002 16:00:06 GMT, Zanardi2k2 wrote:

> Is there something better than:
> 
> $var1=substr($_, 0, 10)
> $var2=substr($_, 11, 16)
> $var3=...

See
        perldoc -f pack
        perldoc -f unpack


If you have e.g. the following layout:

    my $string = "123      456       ABC";

i.e. 9 places for the first field and 10 places for the second field,
you can use:

    my @data = unpack("A9 A10 A*", $string);

-- 
felix



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