in reply to Problem with s///

Nik, check out perldoc perlre which will tell you all about the character classes including \d. To answer your question:

$xronos =~ s/:\d{2} \d{4}//g;

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Of course, substitution isn't always the answer, you could simply do:

substr($xronos,-8) = "";

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and get the same results.

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Re: Re: Problem with s///
by Nik (Initiate) on Jan 09, 2004 at 13:03 UTC
    Thank you very much! indeed s/// is not always the answer! :)
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      Ah, but the substr() solution will fail 7996 years from now. Code for posterity! s/:\d{2} \d{4,}\z//
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