Formatting a variable?

[Simon Burns <sb...@chec.scu.edu.au>]

Dear Sir/Madam

How do you format a variable to delete the first character of the variable
using mod perl?
I am trying to delete a ($) dollar sign from a price that I have in a
varibale called $price.

I thank you for any help that you can provide.

Simon Burns

Re: Formatting a variable?

[Angus Lees <gu...@switchonline.com.au>]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:17:06PM +1000, Simon Burns wrote:
> How do you format a variable to delete the first character of the variable
> using mod perl?
> I am trying to delete a ($) dollar sign from a price that I have in a
> varibale called $price.

basic perl stuff, see perlre(1p) or a perl book

$price =~ s/^\$//;

`$' is a special regex character, so you have to escape it.

-- 
 - Gus