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in thread remove first and last character of string

Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32)  Tue 10/13/2020 23:18:23
C:\@Work\Perl\monks
>perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings
my $s = '"654321_1111"';
print "'$s' \n";

$s = substr $s, 1, -1;
print "'$s' \n";
^Z
'"654321_1111"'
'654321_1111'

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Re^4: remove first and last character of string
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 14, 2020 at 10:46 UTC
    $s = substr $s, 1, -1;

    Nice.
    I didn't know that would work. I would have done it as: 
    $s = substr $s, 1, length($s) - 2;

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    But I've read the documentation, now ;-)

    Cheers,
    Rob
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