Perl Question

[Jason Berendsen]

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?

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

$year = substr(THATVAR,0,2)


substr(STRING, STARTINGPOS, LENGTH2CUT)


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harry

[Jason Berendsen]

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

Jason