Jose Alves de Castro wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:04, Tim McGeary wrote:
I need to pull out articles "a", "an", and "the" from the beginning
of title strings so that they sort properly in MySQL. What is the
best way to accomplish that if I have a single $scalar with the
whole title in it?
I would go with substitutions:
$scalar =~ s/^(?:a|an|the)//i;
Two problems:
1. This doesn't remove just the whole words; it removes parts of words as well. i.e. "Analyzing Widgets" would become "alyzing Widgets"
Actually it would become "nalyzing Widgets" because 'a' is the first alternative. :-)
John -- use Perl; program fulfillment
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