check out substr!
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/func/substr.html
$var= substr($var,3);
Etienne
Aaron Shurts wrote:
>
> I am not sure what to use in this case.
> I am grabbing a bunch of login information from our database. The login
> has 3 leading numbers. i.e. The value returned is:
> 123login
> I need to strip the 123 off and discard it. That value is unimportant
> to me. Here is my pseudo-code:
>
> while( ($login) = $sth->fetchrow_array ())
> {
> foreach %login
> {
> get rid of the leading numbers;
> }
> }
>
> Aaron Shurts
>
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