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>In my situation I have a string like so:
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>my $string = '20050516';
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>and I want to rearrange it to look like: 05162005, so I tried:
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>my $newstring =
>substr($string,0,8).substr($string,0,4).substr($string,8,0);
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>But my problem is: it's leaving 2005 in the beginning of the string to
look
>like 200505162005 when all I need is 05162005
>Any ideas?
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my $newstring = substr($string,4,4).substr($string,0,4);
Should do the trick...
>thx
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>
>Derek B. Smith
>OhioHealth IT
>UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams
>614-566-4145
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thanks Roberto!
that did work.
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However, is one way more efficient that the other. To me Roberto's way
seems easier to read compared to Jeff's:
substr($string, 4, 2) . substr($string, 6, 2) . substr($string, 0, 4)
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