Re: Cut Function

2002-05-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On May 6, Zielfelder, Robert said: >Is there a way to make Perl truncate a single scalar variable by a given >number of characters like the unix cut command can? For example, I have a >scalar variable that is 7 characters long, but for another purpose I only >want the last 5 characters of this v

Cut Function

2002-05-06 Thread Zielfelder, Robert
Greetings, Is there a way to make Perl truncate a single scalar variable by a given number of characters like the unix cut command can? For example, I have a scalar variable that is 7 characters long, but for another purpose I only want the last 5 characters of this variable. To do this with th