Re: How to make this substitutions without splitting the strings?

You don't need to split into an array to access positions in a string by index, you can use substr (or index to search for the indices of "-", or even a regex and pos). Also, you can output a new file with only the characters you want instead of manipulating a large string.

Show us some of your code and we can help you with that...

(I dimly remember seeing a similar question on PerlMonks recently... have you Googled your question?)

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Re^2: How to make this substitutions without splitting the strings? by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Jul 28, 2014 at 12:24 UTC
Remember to process the strings backwards so the 'erase' does not change the position of characters yet to be processed. Bill	[reply]
Re^3: How to make this substitutions without splitting the strings? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 28, 2014 at 13:45 UTC
Note this only applies if you don't follow the parent's recommendation of generating new strings.	[reply]