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update: More or less the same idea as duff i see :)
ok, yet another way then :)
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]; }
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Re^2: Display shortened paragraph
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 01, 2006 at 06:09 UTC | |
by graff (Chancellor) on Feb 01, 2006 at 07:00 UTC | |
by jbrugger (Parson) on Feb 01, 2006 at 06:14 UTC | |
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by Anonymous Monk on Feb 01, 2006 at 06:18 UTC |
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