Re: substr parsing mask

2003-09-29 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Sep 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I got it to work after adding a new var in apache modperl environment. > >This works: > $acct_no = $xgi->param("acct_no"); > print substr($acct_no, 0, 4, "x" x (length($acct_no)-4)); > >This did NOT work: > print substr($xgi->param("acct_no"), length($xgi->param

Re: substr parsing mask

2003-09-29 Thread perl
I got it to work after adding a new var in apache modperl environment. This works: $acct_no = $xgi->param("acct_no"); print substr($acct_no, 0, 4, "x" x (length($acct_no)-4)); This did NOT work: print substr($xgi->param("acct_no"), length($xgi->param("acct_no"))-4,4); Any explanation would be

Re: substr parsing mask

2003-09-27 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Sep 27, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan said: >On Sep 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >>Does anyone have a short routine for displaying mask on some values and >>displaying the value of the last four? For example, alot of site display >>credit card numbers like 1234 which shows only the last four. >> >>I

Re: substr parsing mask

2003-09-27 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Sep 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Does anyone have a short routine for displaying mask on some values and >displaying the value of the last four? For example, alot of site display >credit card numbers like 1234 which shows only the last four. > >I know how to use the substr but what about re

substr parsing mask

2003-09-26 Thread perl
Does anyone have a short routine for displaying mask on some values and displaying the value of the last four? For example, alot of site display credit card numbers like 1234 which shows only the last four. I know how to use the substr but what about replacing the preceding values with ?