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Perl Question

Jason Berendsen — Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:20:19 GMT

I am new to Perl and am looking for the equivalent command to the Unix cut command. I have a date in the format 020426 and want to cut the first to digits and put them in a variable called year. Is there an easy way in Perl to do this? Also, can you give any recommendations as to where I could find some good easy Perl example programs for me to work with?

Re: Perl Question

harry d brown jr — Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:24:28 GMT

$year = substr(THATVAR,0,2)

substr(STRING, STARTINGPOS, LENGTH2CUT)

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harry

Re: Perl Question

Jason Berendsen — Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:29:36 GMT

Thanks alot Harry that was exactly what I needed! Well worth 10 points.

Jason