I'm at my wit's end, and cannot for the life of me get this to work itself out correctly! Any advice is welcome:
I have a string that's basically an ID number, consisting of a product prefix and a number, for example STPC0001. What I need to know is what number item I'm on, STPC0001 or STPC0010? Right now I'm doing the following:
if ($currNumber =~ /^($product)./) { 
    @currNumber = split //, $currNumber;
    @product = split //, $product;
        
    $prodLength = @product;
        @adjNum = splice(@currNumber,$prodLength); }

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@adjNum captures the string of numbers I want to look at - in this case it cuts off the STPC and leaves me with 0001. However, this only works for 0001-0009, when I get to 0010, it starts back at 0, and thusly screws me up. I've tried scalar(@adjNum) to kinda force the 0001 into a single number, but that also doesn't work properly after 9.

Any help/advice is *greatly* appreciated!

In reply to Split & Splice Confusion by TrinityInfinity

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