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I, too, had this question a while back. Some time passed, I forgot what I was told, and I had the same question all over again. I felt foolish trying to manipulate strings when someone had already solved in the problem 20 or more years ago (in C/Unix, at least).
I think the meta-problem is that I routinely forget that for a common problem, someone else has already solved it and probably published the solution. This is true even more so in something as stable, mature, and widespread as Perl 5.
If there is a change I need to incorporate into my coding behavior, it is to be able to recognize a common problem before wrassling with it too long and simply lookup the answer instead.
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