Another Newbie responding .
or, if you wanted the first "word" in $part1 (not necessairly the first 4 characters)
you could do:
@list = split(/ /, $part1);
$part2 = $list[0];
Here you split the $part1 variable on whitespace. The individual strings are then
placed in a "list array" called
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been programming for a number of years, but I'm VERY new to Perl, and
> it looks like a lot of fun. However, I'm very much in the learning stage,
> so please be patient, I'm still learning all the keywords etc...
>
> I'm curious how I can parse
(Newbie responding)
I think:
$part2 = substr($part1, 0, 4);
That's string, position from which to start, length
The parentheses aren't technically necessary; I just like them...
-J
