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Re: How do I print only some letters of this string

by Roy Johnson (Monsignor)
on Nov 03, 2003 at 21:53 UTC ( [id://304255]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How do I print only some letters of this string

nuance made a couple of sub-optimal choices: for instead of while, and the 4-argument substr to actually change $_ rather than the 3-argument form to get what he wants out of it. 
while (<DATA>) {
    print substr($_, 0, 100);
}

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