Hello. I have a logfile in which every message begins with a timestamp (ex. - 20012091500). I would like to be able to remove the last 4 characters (1500) off each of these to derive the date only (2001209). It works by chopping of each character individually, but I would like to know if there is a cleaner way to do this via regex or possibly by chopping multiple characters off at once.
$ts = "200212091500"; chop ($ts); chop ($ts); chop ($ts); chop ($ts); print "$ts\n"; Thanks, Jose
