comment on

A dot has a special meaning in regexes, it matches any character except newline. To match a literal dot, you need to backslash it.

Moreover, you probably don't want to remove a dot from somewhere further inside the string, only the starting one. You can add ^ to the regex, it only matches at the beginning of the string.

The final g means "global", it will remove all the occurrences of the pattern. As we only want to remove a single occurrence, we don't need it.

$file =~ s{^\.}{};
[download]

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

In reply to Re: In my perl script one of the variable it is giving an extra dot. by choroba
in thread In my perl script one of the variable it is giving an extra dot. by Anonymous Monk

Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.


P is for Practical
	PerlMonks