Re: How to get substring between first and second character

A regex will "do the trick".

use strict;
use warnings;
my $DB_string = "Database_Test_Access_DB";
my ($get) = $DB_string =~ /_(.+?)_/;
print $get, "\n";
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Bill

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Re^2: How to get substring between first and second character by tale103108 (Novice) on Jan 17, 2013 at 19:51 UTC
Oh wise Bill... your solution worked. One more related question. I need to trim the last few characters which could be either CISD or ISD, so that 'TestISD' becomes 'Test' and 'DevelopmentCISD' becomes 'Development'. What wisdom can you impart upon this poor soul?	[reply]
Re^3: How to get substring between first and second character by Kenosis (Priest) on Jan 17, 2013 at 20:52 UTC
`s/C?ISD$//` on the captured string, or modifying BillKSmith's regex (assuming those endings are in the the original strings) to `/_(.+?)C?ISD_/` would work.	[reply] [d/l] [select]