chop from front and back

[torres09]

hey

I have two array cells one starting with " say like "abc and other ending with " say like def" . so when I print them together it prints like "abcdef" . but I want to print it as abcdef , how can I do it

[moritz]

substr, chop, tr (if you just want to strip the quotes) and s come to mind.

[hdb]

s/"//g will remove all " from your string, s/^"|"$//g; only the ones at the beginning and the end of the string.

[kcott]

G'day torres09,

Something like this:

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -le '
    my $x = q{"abc};
    my $y = q{def"};
    print substr $x . $y, 1, -1;
'
abcdef

[torres09]

what if I wish to print it as abc,def

[choroba]

print substr "$x,$y", 1, -1;

[space_monk]

#!/usr/bin/perl

# this is long just to be readable
# some clever Monks will no doubt show shorter methods...

# Monks get stroppy if you don't use these... :-)
use strict;
use warnings;

# Perl developers best friend....
use Data:Dumper;

# array we want to process...
my @array = qw( "abc def" );

# print array to show it contains the two elements...

print "Array:".Dumper( \@array)."\n";

# join your array together...
my $str = join( '', @array);

# remove anything you don't want in the string...
# this removes all quotes, but you can change it
# to just start and end
$str =~ s/['"]//g; # ...or $str =~ tr/'"//;

# output result....
print $str;