in reply to Re: substr problem
in thread substr problem

I was hoping to get a certain number($length) of characters from the end of the string.
But using -$lenght returns "" regardless of $length.

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Re: Re: Re: substr problem
by TStanley (Canon) on Jul 13, 2002 at 18:28 UTC
    so what you need is:
    my $offset = -5; # or however many characters from the end
                 # that you want
my $new_string = substr $filename, $offset;

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