in reply to Re: String Length
in thread String Length

I think your suggestion may work. I guess the best way to approach this problem would be to get the length and if the length = 3 then use chomp and then substring the numeric charcter out of the string and pass it to a variable. Then the same would hold true for other similar situations?? TIA- ep

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Re: Re: Re: String Length
by ton (Friar) on Apr 04, 2001 at 23:35 UTC
    actually, you should use chop twice. chomp only eats end of line characters (default are "\r\n"). chop eats whatever is there. Although I really think you should use a regexp instead, in case the last couple characters aren't "ST".
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      What if I'm looking for "ST" or "TH" or "RD"? How would a regular expression help in this instance? ep
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        This is crossing the line between our helping out and our doing your homework for you. Read perlre.

        (Aimed that the Anonymous Monk, not ep.)

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        $string =~ s/(.*).{2}$/$1/;

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        will take ANY two characters off of the end of the string.

        my $name = 'Ben Kittrell'; $name=~s/^(.+)\s(.).+$/\L$1$2/g; my $nick = 'tha' . $name . 'sta';
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