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Re: How do I return the first n words of a string?

by Fastolfe (Vicar)
on Oct 26, 2000 at 18:59 UTC ( [id://38628]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How do I return the first n words of a string?

The first two things that come to my mind: 
$_ = "some string with multiple words";
@first_three = (split)[0..2];
  # or
($first_three) = /^\s*(\S+\s+\S+\s+\S+)/;

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You can probably adapt either of these to your purposes.

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