Rex-gurus: Replace first character in a string 1

[thendal]

Hi all!

I have replace first character in a string with null ie)

S344545 to 344545 ...

i tried some thing like this

$t=M23443;
@m=split(//,$t);
shift(@m);
$s=join('',@m);
print "$s";

i knew there is better one liner ...

Thank you.

 

[arn0ld]

if you mean "delete the 1st character in the string", use s/something/something_else/

 

[mikevh]

While you can do this with an re, it's overkill.
Check out the substr() function and the length() function.
(You can do it with substr() alone, but I think the first
solution that will occur to many involves both.)

 

[Coderifous]

mikevh is absolutely correct, or better put, I agree with his suggested solution 100%.

$a = "abcde";
$b = substr($a, 1);
print $b;  # gives 'bcde'

--jim

 

[thendal]

Thank you very much all.