Frank Wiles wrote at Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:14:16 -0600:
If you're wanting to find the last digit in a scalar, you'll want to
modify this to be:
($match) = $num =~ /(\d)$/;
or if there is always there characters you can also do this:
($match) = $num =~ /\d\d(\d)/;
Janek Schleicher wrote:
Frank Wiles wrote at Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:14:16 -0600:
If you're wanting to find the last digit in a scalar, you'll want to
modify this to be:
($match) = $num =~ /(\d)$/;
or if there is always there characters you can also do this:
The length() function is what you need.
print length($num), \n;
Mar 12, 2003 at 10:08am from David Gilden:
DG I am looking for the $num to treated as a string and get the number of characters,
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.--[ David Gilden wrote (2003/03/12 at 10:08:52) ]--
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| Hello,
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| I am looking for the $num to treated as a string and get the number
| of characters, in this case I am look for 3 to be returned.
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| Later I want to use this number to pad a string with zeros
|
perldoc -f length
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $num=123;
my $match=length($num);
print $match\n; # should print 3
__END__
José.
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NYIMI Jose (BMB) wrote:
perldoc -f length
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $num=123;
my $match=length($num);
print $match\n; # should print 3
__END__
José.
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