Rob, I want to check out the C code. Kindly mail it to my box. Have a great day!
Emeka On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Rob Dixon <rob.di...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 06/09/2011 13:04, Emeka wrote: > >> >> Could someone explain what Perl does behind here? >> >> Assign to Substring.. >> substr($string, 0 , 5) = 'Greetings'; >> > > What do you want to know Emeka? > > There is no copy of the 'old' string, and substr behaves as documented. > > I have the C code of substr in front of me, but there is little else to > say. > > Rob > -- *Satajanus Nig. Ltd *