Hi Aaron,
$login =~ s!^\d{3}!!;
See also:
perldoc perlre
Cheers,
Kevin
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:08:07PM -0800, Aaron Shurts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said
something similar to:
> I am not sure what to use in this case.
> I am grabbing a bunch of login information from our database. The login
> has 3 leading numbers. i.e. The value returned is:
> 123login
> I need to strip the 123 off and discard it. That value is unimportant
> to me. Here is my pseudo-code:
>
> while( ($login) = $sth->fetchrow_array ())
> {
> foreach %login
> {
> get rid of the leading numbers;
> }
> }
>
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