Re: Golf: Replacing part of a string with "*"

[explorer]

in reply to Golf: Replacing part of a string with "*"

Maybe a regex:

$string =~ s/^\d{12}/'*' x 12/e;           # ************5678

[ikegami]

If the OP wanted to hardcode the length, he could have done

substr($string,0,-4,'*'x12);

Much clearer.