In general, I would urge you to read the built-in functions for strings and
scalars in the Perl documentation.
That said, an easy way to get the first fifty characters of a string (ie a
substring of a string) use
my $substring = substr($row, 0, 50); # $row is the string, 0 is the
starting poin
In general, I would urge you to read the built-in functions for strings and
scalars in the Perl documentation.
That said, an easy way to get the first fifty characters of a string (ie a
substring of a string) use
my $substring = substr($row, 0, 50); # $row is the string, 0 is the
starting poin
>I am trying to figure out how I can parse a row, character by
>character, that I have retrieved from a database.
You could try something like this:
while ($row) { # while there are still characters left to look at
($char) = $row =~ s/(\w)//; # Removes the first word character of
I am completely new to Perl.
I am trying to figure out how I can parse a row, character by character,
that I have retrieved from a database. I would like to format output
based on characters from the row. For example I may have retrieved 250
character string from a database and I want to print
