[ic] perl issue

Ed LaFrance (New Media E.M.S.) ic_users at newmediaems.com
Sat Jul 17 20:23:59 EDT 2004


At 02:25 PM 7/17/2004, you wrote:

>This may be better asked in a perl group but I know many perl wizards read 
>this list so thought I'd try. I want to strip all charcaters from a string 
>that come before the first hyphen, as well as that first hyphen. For 
>example I want
>
>AB-CDE-FGH
>
>to become
>
>CDE-FGH
>
>Is there an easy way to do that with perl?
>
>DB

Should be as easy as:

         my $string = 'AB-CDE-FGH'
         $string =~ s/.+?-//;


- Ed


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