On Sep 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I got it to work after adding a new var in apache modperl environment. > >This works: > $acct_no = $xgi->param("acct_no"); > print substr($acct_no, 0, 4, "x" x (length($acct_no)-4)); > >This did NOT work: > print substr($xgi->param("acct_no"), length($xgi->param("acct_no"))-4,4);
They're not the same code. print substr( $xgi->param('acct_no'), 0, 4, "x" x (length($xgi->param('acct_no')) - 4) ); -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]