[plug] perl question

[Alex Nordstrom]

On Thursday, 23 Sep 2004 11:51, Patrick Tehvand wrote:
> Quick one, Can someone tell me if there is a function to strip the
> first character off a variable?
>
> sort of like chop except at the other end?

Not that I know of; I'm not sure, but I believe it would not be possible 
to do with the same efficiency. I would just use "s/^.//s" or substr 
with a starting value of 1 and no length argument. They should achieve 
the goal, even if they are costlier than a chop.

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