smoss74 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Folks, I need to search for a string between two specific character positions in a file. The string is always from character 294 to character 302 in each line of a file containg multiple lines. What is the best way to extract this string? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Search for string between specific character numbers in a line
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 31, 2010 at 11:48 UTC

    If you are slurping the entire file, use substr: 

    if( substr( $file, 294, 6 ) =~ /.../ ) {
    print 'found';
}
else {
     print 'not found';
}

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