TIMTOWTDI
update: More or less the same idea as
duff i see :)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $txt = "just wondering how i can have perl display part of my long
+memo. basically i want the first lets say 255 charachters of the para
+graph. im really new to perl so i don't know how i would come about t
+his? a regex perhaps? just started reading about that today. so basic
+ally something like";
my $n = 20;
$txt =~ m/(.{$n})/gs;
print $1;
ok, yet another way then :)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $txt = "just wondering how i can have perl display part of my long
+memo. basically i want the first lets say 255 charachters of the para
+graph. im really new to perl so i don't know how i would come about t
+his? a regex perhaps? just started reading about that today. so basic
+ally something like";
my @a = split("",$txt);
for (my $i=0; $i<20; $i++) {
print $a[$i];
}
"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise." - Larry Wall.