Daniel brought up on IRC that it might be useful for string_replace() to be able to replace N chars from string 1 with a substr of string 2. I wrote string_replace() to how I understood Perl5 semantics, where if you wanted to only use a substr of the replacement string AS the replancement, you'd have to nest substr.
Example: my $orig = "123123""; my $rep = "456456"; If I want orig to be 123456 I have to do substr($orig, 3, 3, substr($rep, 0, 3) ); BUT... for the string_replace internal API it might still be worthwhile for performance to add additional semantics so we don't have to next stuff for performance. I'm open to adding a dest_len arg or something, but consider this a request for comments on any additional string semantics that we might be missing that I'm unaware of. -Melvin Smith IBM :: Atlanta Innovation Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: 770-835-6984
