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Good Questions in categories (strings)
Compare two strings of same length, character-by-character — 1⭐ / 5
What is the simplest way to print a field, as in $3 does in awk — 2⭐ / 2
How do I delete the last instance of a word from a string? — 2⭐ / 3
How would I be able to find all possible letter arrangements? — 1⭐ / 2
Is there a length limit to a string? In a flat file? — 2⭐ / 4
How do I find the percentage of similarity between strings? — 2⭐ / 5
How do I insert characters at certain positions in a string? — 1⭐ / 4
lt versus le in string comparision — 1⭐ / 1
How can I split a string into fixed-length parts, rather than on delimiters? — 1⭐ / 5
How do I find the length of a string? — 2⭐ / 7
What is the best way to capitalize a string? — 2⭐ / 3
How do I compare two strings? — 2⭐ / 5
How does Perl handle strings with embedded NULLs? — 1⭐ / 2
How do I insert (not overwrite) into a string? — 1⭐ / 9
How do I concatenate a string? — 1⭐ / 6
How do I treat a string like a filehandle? — 2⭐ / 5
How can I strip an arbitary number of leading spaces from a string? — 1⭐ / 5
How do I extract a file name from a path string — 2⭐ / 8
How do I assign & substitute in one statement? — 2⭐ / 3
How do I convert a string to Unicode and back (v5.005_03)? — 1⭐ / 4
How can i print N repeated characters? — 1⭐ / 2
What's the difference between chr() and pack('C',hex($1))? — 1⭐ / 1
How do I split on ',' followed by a capital letter? — 1⭐ / 3
Why does $string++ work the way it does? — 3⭐ / 4
How do I compare two strings against two arrays respectively? — 1⭐ / 6
How do I get the Nth Character of a String? — 3⭐ / 4
How to prevent metacharacter interpolation — 1⭐ / 4
How can I split a string into chunks of size n bytes? — 3⭐ / 3
How do I pull n characters off the front of a string? — 3⭐ / 6
How do I split a string containing path+filename — 2⭐ / 5
To express a null string, why would anyone use ...=q{} intead of ...= '' ? — 1⭐ / 2
How do I normalize (e.g. strip) diacritical märks from a Unicode string? — 2⭐ / 6
How do I replace a substring (if exists) with a different substring in a string? — 1⭐ / 4
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