Re^3: remove first and last character of string

Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32)  Tue 10/13/2020 23:18:23
C:\@Work\Perl\monks
>perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings
my $s = '"654321_1111"';
print "'$s' \n";

$s = substr $s, 1, -1;
print "'$s' \n";
^Z
'"654321_1111"'
'654321_1111'
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Re^4: remove first and last character of string by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 14, 2020 at 10:46 UTC
`$s = substr $s, 1, -1;` Nice. I didn't know that would work. I would have done it as: `$s = substr $s, 1, length($s) - 2;` [download] But I've read the documentation, now ;-) Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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