Check out 'perldoc perlre' and 'perldoc -f substr'. If you are using a regular expression, you can use the '^' character to denote the beginning of the string, and parentheses to grab what you need.
You can also check out the substr() function. -----Original Message----- From: alex litvak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:12 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Matching the first string Hello all im new in perl and i need some help i`ve written a script whose purpose is to put files in different directories by its first later, the problem is that every file begins with different chars for example "01 - Eminem Encore.mp3" my question is how can i get to the first latter in the name (in this case it was E), i need just the expression that does it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
