On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, David Samuelsson (PAC) wrote:
> This should be really simple, just use a regexp to remove the 4 last letters from a
>variable.
>
> $variable =~ /\S\S\S\S$/;
This just checks if your patter \S... matches with the
contents of $variable.
This should be $variable =~ s/\S\S\S\S$// or $variable =~ s/\S{4}$//;
This can also be done using substr (perldoc -f substr)
$variable = substr ($variable, 0, -4);
or
substr ($variable, -4, length($variable), '');
> print "$variable";
>
> but this doesnt remove the 4 last letters when i run it, i think i am just getting
>tired here and cant see why, what is the right way to do it? :)
>
> //Dave
>
>
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