Jose Alves de Castro wrote:
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;
So that I am understanding this process, what does each part mean? I assume that the ^ means beginning of the variable... is that correct? What about "(?:" ?
tyia, Tim
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