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

by cbraga (Pilgrim)
on May 01, 2001 at 22:47 UTC ( [id://77068]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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

Or this way: 
#assuming $n contains the number
$string =~ s/^(.{$n})//;
$first_n = $1;

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