Great to hear Rajeev! Jan-willem wrote this regarding the problem: > Hi Shannon, > > This is a way to space apart the variable. > > $input = "345678"; > @pieces = split(//,$input); > > foreach $line (@pieces) { > $newinput = $newinput . " $line"; > } > > I'm sure it is also possible with a fancy regular expression, > unfortunately i don't master regulat expr. (yet) :) > Hope you can do something with it. > > tchau, > Jan-willem
cheers, -Shannon >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rajeev Rumale) >> Organization: My Angel.com >> Newsgroups: perl.beginners.cgi >> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:54:51 +0800 >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Shannon Murdoch" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: $variable manipulation question >> >> Thats Great ! >> Yes this is infact helped me. >> I was trying it in a much complicated way. >> >> regards >> >> Rajeev Rumale >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Shannon Murdoch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 6:50 PM >> Subject: Re: $variable manipulation question >> >> >>> I found a solution not long after using a loop of sorts. (and killed two >>> birds with one stone, as my next step was to put each item (space >> delimited) >>> into an array). >>> I made a loop saying, 'as long as $input still has characters in it, put >>> each one (one at a time) into the @front_chars array, then reverse the >> list >>> order so it's normal again.' >>> >>> $input = "1234"; >>> >>> while($input ne undef){ >>> push(@front_chars,chop($input)); >>> } >>> @front_chars = reverse @front_chars; >>> >>> Not sure if this is helpful to anyone, but it helped me.... >>> >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm trying to get a string (held in a variable) to have all it's >> characters >>>> spaced apart by a ' ' space. >>>> >>>> ie. $input's content changes from '1234' to '1 2 3 4' >>>> >>>> Is there some way to do this? >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> -Shannon >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]