in reply to cut of first char of a string

How many ways How many ways does Perl have to cut off the first char of a string?
At a first glance it seems that this has not been mentioned yet, although basically it may be thought of as a variation of several of those that have been:
$ perl -lne 'print for /(.)(.*)/' dfdfsdgdfs d fdfsdgdfs stgsghttsthe s tgsghttsthe