Re: Remove first letter of each string in array

From: Tore Aursand (tore_at_aursand.no)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 16:46:43 +0200

On Thu, 27 May 2004 15:07:20 +0100, Julia deSilva wrote:
> my @array = qw(1this 2is 3a 4new 5message);
>
> for (my $x=0;$x<@array;$x++){
> $array[$x] = substr($array[$x],1,length($array[$x]))
> }
>
> foreach (@array){print"$_\n";};
>
> This does indeed remove the first letter of each string in this array, but
> is there a better way ! ?

Use Perl's 'for' or 'foreach';

  for ( @array ) {
      $_ = substr( $_, 1 );
  } 

-- 
Tore Aursand <tore@aursand.no>
"War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men." (Georges
 Clemenceau)

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