Re^2: Can you set a character in a string at a given index directly?

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Re^3: Can you set a character in a string at a given index directly?
by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Feb 03, 2015 at 16:46 UTC

Oh, OK, I thought you were inserting a string at the given position. To replace N characters, of course you set the LENGTH parameter to N. For example, to remove 1 element, set LENGTH to 1.

And (just for the sake of completeness), if you want to overwrite the string, you can do this:

splice @chars, $pos, length $insert, $insert;
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which will, for example, take inputs of aaacccddd 3 bbb and thequickbrownfox 8 white, and produce outputs of aaabbbddd and thequickwhitefox, respectively.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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