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Re: Remove non-numerics from stringby svsingh (Priest) |
on Jan 26, 2004 at 18:02 UTC ( [id://324201]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I think you're on the right track, but probably don't want to use split. Here, split would take the string and break it into a list of strings after each underscore.
For what you're trying to do, a simple regular expression match will work. If you just want to pull out the sequence of numbers from $oldValue, then try something like:
For what you're trying to do with split, you need to specify which list element you want to put into $newValue. Since the list starts at element 0, you'll want element 1. You can access it with the following statement:
Note, this will return everything after the underscore, and not just the numbers.
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