[ic] How do I chop a string?

[Rene Hertell]

I tried to look at these functions, but they do not seem to work in the way
I want.. I think there should be a function that lets me specify eg.
chop_left{$value,10_characters), but I have no clue what the name would
be...

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