Re: Substring consisting of all the characters until "character X"?

Something like:

my $i = 2;
substr($fullstring, $i, index($fullstring, ' ', $i) - $i);
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should do.

Or use a regexp.

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Re^2: Substring consisting of all the characters until "character X"? by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Mar 07, 2011 at 13:01 UTC
You should first test that the return value from index is greater than `$i` or you may get unexpected results.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Substring consisting of all the characters until "character X"? by TheMartianGeek (Acolyte) on Mar 07, 2011 at 14:50 UTC
substr($fullstring, $i, index($fullstring, ' ', $i) - $i); I'll go with that (with the necessary check to make sure that the return value of index() is greater than $i). If I've learned one thing about regular expressions, it's that they start out easy enough to understand but get complicated and confusing very quickly.	[reply]