Nishi wrote:
I have a string of the format - abc/def/ghi or abc\def\ghi I want to strip of abc and return just def/ghi or def\ghi How do I do that?
use strict; use warnings; foreach (qw( abc/def/ghi abc\def\ghi )) { (my $trim = $_) =~ s|.*?[/\\]||; print "$_ -> $trim\n"; } **OUTPUT** abc/def/ghi -> def/ghi abc\def\ghi -> def\ghi HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/