rearranging a string

2005-11-21 Thread DBSMITH
In my situation I have a string like so: my $string = '20050516'; and I want to rearrange it to look like: 05162005, so I tried: my $newstring = substr($string,0,8).substr($string,0,4).substr($string,8,0); But my problem is: it's leaving 2005 in the beginning of the string to look like

Re: rearranging a string

2005-11-21 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In my situation I have a string like so: my $string = '20050516'; and I want to rearrange it to look like: 05162005, so I tried: my $newstring = substr($string,0,8).substr($string,0,4).substr($string,8,0); That should be: substr($string, 4, 2) .

Re: rearranging a string

2005-11-21 Thread DBSMITH
Subject Re: rearranging a string

Re: rearranging a string

2005-11-21 Thread DBSMITH
Subject Re: rearranging a string

Re: rearranging a string

2005-11-21 Thread Jay Savage
On 11/21/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my situation I have a string like so: my $string = '20050516'; and I want to rearrange it to look like: 05162005, so I tried: my $newstring =