Bret Goodfellow wrote:
Okay, I know this has to be simple, but because I am trying to truncate
or remove a special character I've run into a roadblock. Here's what I
want to do.
$value = "12345)" ;
How do I change $value so that the trailing ")" is removed. In
otherwords with the given example, how do I manipulate $value so that
its value is "12345"? Please keep in mind that $value may be variable
in length, so I can't use substr($value, 0, 5). Can split be used to do
this? Stumped.
$value =~ s/\D+//g;
Or:
$value =~ tr/0-9//cd;
John
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