Have you seen the length() function? perldoc -f length
If you use a pattern match to grab all of the characters up to the first space, you can check the length of $1. -----Original Message----- From: Gallagher, Tim (NE) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 12:16 PM To: Perl Beginners Subject: Need to get number of charictors to the first blank (white space) space <snip> I want a way to count the number of characters to the first space. Is there an easy function to do this??? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
