On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:04, Tim McGeary wrote: > I need to pull out articles "a", "an", and "the" from the beginning of > title strings so that they sort properly in MySQL. What is the best way > to accomplish that if I have a single $scalar with the whole title in it?
I would go with substitutions: $scalar =~ s/^(?:a|an|the)//i; > Thanks, > Tim > > -- > Tim McGeary > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- José Alves de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://natura.di.uminho.pt/~jac
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