On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:46:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My earlier post was not quite clear. I will explain my problem in
> detail here.
>
> I have a string whose length is say 5. I need to copy another string
> into this string but from an offset of 10.
> I tried using substr but this is a limitation of substr and it gave me
> a fatal error.
> Is there any other function, method which will allow me to do so ?
>
> Manas.
Yes, "rindex" is what (I think) you want; here is a small example of its use:
my($newString) = substr($currentString, (rindex($currentString,
"searchString") + length("searchString".$replacementString)));
Although, John's reply to you first post was better.
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