[ic] How do I chop a string?

[Jason Feingold]

in perl try using chomp or chop, check the docs. I dont know how to use 
scratch...


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>Hi list,
>
>I'm having a field that contains values inserted by users. My problem is
>that when I'm displaying these values, my site-layout will get broken.
>
>I could copy the value to a scratch variable, and cut off everything after
>the first space, or eg. the 10th character, but I'm not good at this at all
>:(
>
>I'm sure this is easy, but I'm a novice in Perl, so this causes too much
>headache for me...
>
>
>Regards, René
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