On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, F.H wrote:

> I meant, counting characters from left to right, $test will occupy charcater 
>position 20 through 25, the print out will look like this.
>
>                    ,abcd  ,
>
> there are other string variables before and after that $test of course. Greg

Oh, you should use the substr function for that: perldoc -f substr.

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