I came across what, according to my reading of the docs, is an anomoly in the way substr works.
Is this a bug in substr, or my reading of the docs?
0.02 0.02 >$,='|'
|0.02|0.02|>$s = qq(the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog)
# Used this way, the return is the 4 bytes replaced.
|0.02|0.02|>print substr($s,0,4,''),$s
the |quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
|0.02|0.02|>print $s
quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
# But used this way, it is the first 4 bytes *after* the replacement o
+ccurs?
|0.02|0.02|>print substr($s,0,4)='',$s
k br|k brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
|0.02|0.02|>print $s
k brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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