Octavian Rasnita wrote: > I have a string $line that can be a short word or a very long line, > and I want to cut it if it is longer than 20 characters, then to end > it with .... Is there any Perl function for chopping what is over a > number of characters?
substr($string, $start, $length) > For example I have a string: > > $line = "Microsoft is a big company and I love Bill Gates"; > And I want to cut it to become: > > $line = "Microsoft is a big..."; $line = substr($line, 0, 18) . "..."; Length of 20 goes to the c in company... HTH -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
