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Re: How do I pull n characters off the front of a string?

by Masem (Monsignor)
on Apr 24, 2001 at 20:26 UTC ( [id://75125]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How do I pull n characters off the front of a string?

my ($x,$y) = ( $string =~ /^(.{$n})(.*)$/ );

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