Simple Question

Edge posted this at 23:38 — 5th November 2001.

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Just a simple question here...

In Perl, how would I isolate the first letter of a word to a variable??

Thanks!

--Edge

tmay posted this at 01:51 — 6th November 2001.

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$first = substr($string, 0, 1);

Edge posted this at 22:49 — 6th November 2001.

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Hey, Thanks! That works great. Could you tell me how to determine if that letter is a number?

tmay posted this at 02:03 — 7th November 2001.

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$first = substr($string, 0, 1);

if($first =~ /[0-9]/)
{ ..do something if it's a number.. } else { ..do something else.. }