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Re: truncating a line

by particle (Vicar)
on Jul 01, 2003 at 13:55 UTC ( [id://270468]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to truncating a line

you'll want to use substr:

my $long_line= 'this line is more than seventeen characters.';
my $short_line= substr( $long_line, 16, length $long_line ) .= '...';

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~Particle *accelerates*

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