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Removing the first 5 chars from a $string:

substr($string,0,5)='';

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Re^2: text file parsing with chomp
by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Aug 12, 2009 at 21:08 UTC

    Or alternatively: 

    substr $string, 0, 5, '';

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