Re: howto strip the first char of a string?

Those are both perfectly reasonable ways of removing the first character of a string. Other far less reasonable ways might include:

    my @foo = split //;
    shift @foo;
    $_ = join '', @foo;

or

    my $foo = reverse($_);
    chop($foo);
    $_ = reverse($foo);

or
    $_ = unpack "xA*", $_;
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and so forth.

/J\

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Re^2: howto strip the first char of a string? by wfsp (Abbot) on Sep 08, 2004 at 13:34 UTC
Excellent! Could anti-golf be the new golf?	[reply]
Re^3: howto strip the first char of a string? by QM (Parson) on Sep 08, 2004 at 14:29 UTC
Notwithstanding gellyfish's excellent diversion, there is no "longest" way to do it. You can always add another `semi-colon`. On the other hand, once you whittle a solution down to the empty string, I'm reasonably sure^* that nothing shorter will show up. And for the longest contest, after the first few TB solutions, we'll all grow tired of waiting for the latest entry to download. ^ Solutions by TheDamian excepted.* -QM -- Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: howto strip the first char of a string? by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Sep 08, 2004 at 13:56 UTC
It became almost a tradition in clpm a few years back. /J\	[reply]