Kenneth Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> dear all,
>
> it seems all the "lvalue sub" RFCs haven't mentioned this.
> currently we can do
>
> $str = "foo bar";
> substr($str, 4, 0) = "baz ";
>
> and $str will become "foo baz bar". should we be able to do
> this with lvalue-subs? how can one returns "pointer" to a
> portion of a scalar?
You can do that at the moment with tie magic. I posted a semi working
example to the fun with perl list a while back. It was more or less
painful to do. But it worked.
--
Piers
