Perl: String Operations
Substring
String extraction is done with substr()
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The form is: substr($myString, offset index, number of characters to extract)
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # perl # substring. 2nd arg is begin index, 3rd arg is count print substr('012345', 2, 2); # prints 23
String Length
Length of string is length()
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print length('abc');
String Join and Repetition
In Perl, string join is done with a dot.
$astr= "under" . "stand";
String repetition is done with the operator x
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print 'abc' x 2;