Re: how do I get a character at position index out of a string like c++ char * string[index] ?

[Rob Dixon]

Fleur Junier wrote:
> how do I get a character at position index out of a string like c++
> char
> * string[index] ?

The nearest equivalent is substr:

    my $string = 'Mozzarella';
    my $i = 6;
    my $char = substr $string, $i, 1;    # $char eq 'e'

which is subtly different from C's string[i] in that $char is not
a character (as Perl doesn't have such things) but a one-character
string.

HTH,

Rob




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