[Chicago-talk] Scalar question?

Warren Smith warren at warrenandrachel.com
Fri Apr 1 06:33:37 PST 2005


my $s = substr($scalar, -3);

On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 05:43 -0800, Richard Reina wrote:
> my $scalar = "whisky";
> 
> If this gives me the last 3 characters of the string
> "whisky":
> 
> my $s = substr(3,3,$scalar); 
> 
> How can I get the last three letters of any string
> regardless of the strings length (given that the
> string will be atleast three characters long)?
> 
> Any help would be graetly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
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