Re: remove first and last character of string

i've thought of using substr but i can't be sure that the number above in quotes will always be the same number of characters

You can use substr() without knowing the number of characters.
To remove the first character of $str: substr($str, 0, 1, '')
To remove the last character of $str : substr($str, -1, 1, '')
Or remove the last character of $str : substr($str, length($str) - 1, '')
Or, just use chop() to remove the last character, as you've already noted.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: remove first and last character of string by flieckster (Scribe) on Oct 14, 2020 at 02:44 UTC
Thanks Rob, but is there a way use this `Or remove the last character of $str : substr($str, length($str) - 1, '')` to remove the last and first in one line?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: remove first and last character of string by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 14, 2020 at 03:20 UTC
`Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32) Tue 10/13/2020 23:18:23 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings my $s = '"654321_1111"'; print "'$s' \n"; $s = substr $s, 1, -1; print "'$s' \n"; ^Z '"654321_1111"' '654321_1111'` [download] Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: remove first and last character of string by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 14, 2020 at 10:46 UTC
`$s = substr $s, 1, -1;` Nice. I didn't know that would work. I would have done it as: `$s = substr $s, 1, length($s) - 2;` [download] But I've read the documentation, now ;-) Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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