[plug] perl question

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:51:20AM +0800, Patrick Tehvand wrote:
> Quick one, Can someone tell me if there is a function to strip the first 
> character off a variable?

substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT ; as in:

% perl -le 'print substr($ARGV[0],1)' abcde
bcde

Nick.

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