in reply to Removing delimiters

Hi ,

     $a = "word1:word2";
     ($firstword) = split(/::/,$a,2),shift;

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Re^2: Removing delimiters
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Feb 06, 2003 at 12:00 UTC
    What's the shift for?

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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