Hey monks, there are a couple of minor things I need a bit of help on if u can...

I know how to find a word on a line... 

if ($line =~ /\b$word\b/){}

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But how do I find out if a word is not on a line, I thought maybe prefix the statement with a '!'? Theres clearly something obvious im missing here!

The second thing i would like to know is how do I remove the first char from a string in an array element?
I would have something like "10000001", but i want the first '1' to no longer exist so it will read "0000001". It must be the first char as sometimes there maybe letters there or special chars (e.g. -, +, $) that i dont want. I was thinking of using split which will work but i thought there must be some regular expression that is much more efficient (As u can guess, regular expressions are not my strong point!).

The third thing is i want to remove all chars up to the last ',' in an array element. For example, if I have: 

"","","hello, my name is Bob, my cell number is, 1234567890",""

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I want to remove ", 1234567890" in array element 2. It wont always be a number, this is just an example. Again i guess theres some clever bit of regex that solves this problem very quickly!

These are probably easy to solve for u perl guru's out there, but for us lowly apprentices its not so easy! I must get to grips with these god damn regex, can anyone recommend a decent book that can explain this sorta stuff for people as mentally challenged as myself?! (No books for dummies please, i dont need my mental capacity challenged by patronising yellow books with kiddie pics plastered over it! ;-))

Thanks peeps, Chad :-)

In reply to Not find a word / remove first char in string / remove last value in list by Anonymous Monk

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