On Fri Aug 07 2009 @ 4:03, jet speed wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to join the $abc with ':' the final desired output 1:2:3:4:5 > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $abc = "1 2 3 4 5"; > my $out = join ':', $abc; > print "$out"; The function join works on lists not scalars. This would do what you want:
my @important_numbers = (1..5); my $out = join ':', @important_numbers; print $out, "\n"; Alternatively, if for some reason your application gets the string '1 2 3 4 5' as a single item, you could split it first (on whitespace) and then join the list that split produces: my $string = '1 2 3 4 5'; my $out = join ':', split /\s/, $string; print $out, "\n"; My guess is that you don't really want the data in a string to begin with, but sometimes you are getting it from somewhere else. Hope this helps, T -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
