On Feb 12, David Inglis said: >Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong I have a variable with a value >"bloggs, joe" which I then spilt into 2 using @names=split(/\,/, $contact) >I then have $names[1] with a space at the front, I have tried to remove >it by doing $name[1]=~tr/\s//; but it does not remove the leading space.
tr/// does not recognize regex notations. You'd need to say $names[1] =~ tr/\n\r\t\f //d; You're also missing the 'd' modifier to tr///, which specifies to delete characters on the left side that aren't given replacements on the right. But you might just want to do $names[1] =~ s/\s+//g; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
