[ic] How do I chop a string?

[Rene Hertell]

Thanks, I will check this. This seems to be what I have been looking for :)

René

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:interchange-users-admin@lists.akopia.com]On Behalf Of Tom Lichti
> Sent: 15 April 2001 19:31
> To: interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
> Subject: RE: [ic] How do I chop a string?
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>
> Try substr():
>
> http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc/substr.html
>
> Tom
>
> --On Sunday, April 15, 2001 7:20 PM +0300 Rene Hertell
> <rene@hertell.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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