Re^4: Retain first 4 characters of a string

Sagar, I have changed the requirement slightly, basically the colours below:

baby blue
baby pink
black
dark blue
brown
dark purple
green
orange
hot pink
light purple
red
white
yellow
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If the space between them exists then how do i retain just the first letter of the words e.g hot pink would be hp and light purple would be lp? I can't figure out how to do it with the split and join if there is no space between two words then simply retain the colour i.e. red would be red Thank you :)

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Re^5: Retain first 4 characters of a string by johngg (Canon) on Aug 24, 2012 at 19:00 UTC
`$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E ' > open my $inFH, q{<}, \ <<EOF or die $!; > baby blue > baby pink > black > dark blue > brown > dark purple > green > orange > hot pink > light purple > red > white > yellow > light powder blue > EOF > > say for > map { > @$_ > 1 > ? join q{}, map { substr $_, 0, 1 } @$_ > : $_->[ 0 ] > } > map { [ split ] } > <$inFH>;' bb bp black db brown dp green orange hp lp red white yellow lpb` [download] Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Retain first 4 characters of a string by Anonymous Monk on Aug 24, 2012 at 14:04 UTC
Really? When you specify the number of times to match, enter 1	[reply]