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Re: How do I insert, (not overwrite) into a string?

by redcloud (Parson)
on Aug 24, 2000 at 22:32 UTC ( [id://29489]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How do I insert (not overwrite) into a string?

Just to follow-up KM and davorg, note that you can use substr() as an lvalue. It's just syntactic sugar, but I like the taste of it. 8^) 
use strict;
my $str = "ello";
substr($str,0,0) = "H";
print $str, "\n";

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