in reply to How to remove middle of string?

This was covered fairly well in a node about extracting a range.

this node

Update: changed from an absolute link, thanks broquaint

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Re: Re: How to remove middle of string?
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 06, 2002 at 14:10 UTC
    Thanks, but I actually am trying to replace the specified text with Different text
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      The four-argument usage of perlfunc:substr will do what you are looking for. For example:

      my $string = "foo bar baz";
my $replacement = "moo";

#   This will print "foo moo baz"
print substr($string, 4, 3, $replacement), "\n";

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