[Chicago-talk] Scalar question?

[Richard Reina]

Thanks Warren, that's exactly what I needed.

Richard
--- Warren Smith <warren at warrenandrachel.com> wrote:

> 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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