On Wednesday 14 April 2004 11:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Apr 14, 2004, at 2:06 AM, Bryan Harris wrote:
> >
> > The above line could also be written:
> >
> > substr $_, index($_, $ss), length($ss), $rs;
>
> Wouldn't it be this instead?
>
> substr $_, index($_, $ss), length($ss) = $rs;
That won't work. Because of precedence it evaluates to:
substr $_, index($_, $ss), ( length($ss) = $rs );
> I was looking up substr and didn't see a fourth parameter. Didn't
> have a chance to try it either :-)
perldoc -f substr
substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT
^^^^^^^^^^^
substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH
substr EXPR,OFFSET
John
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