Re: Chopping strings

[John W. Krahn]

Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> 
> while ($long_string ne '') {
>         my $chunk = substr( $long_string, 0, 26);
>         substr( $long_string, 0, 26) = '';

Or just:

         my $chunk = substr( $long_string, 0, 26, '' );

But that is inefficient because you modify the beginning of the string
on each iteration.


John
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