On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC wrote: > For example I have 'ABCDEFGH' and I want to get the right three letters: > > Right('abcdefgh',3) = 'fgh' > > Left can be done with substring (x,0) I am sure, but what about right?
You can still use substr, just give it a starting point that is negative: perl -e 'print substr('abcdefg', -3, 3), "\n"' efg -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ College: The fountains of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]