Perl has many ways to perform "surgery" . What would the most efficient code be to extract "author" from this string...
$a = "author.234098333abc"
I need code for...
$userID = ???? what??? (to make $userID = "author".
I know there are a lot of different ways to do this. But, coming from an old-time basic programmer point of view I have a tendancy to thinking along "Basic" code. I have found that perl can handle things much more efficiently and would like some ideas.
Thanks
TimRyan



[This message has been edited by timryan (edited August 26, 1999).]

The way DBMan does it is


Where $db_uid would be "author.234098333abc" and $db_userid would be "author."

Hmmmmm. I just realized you have letters in addition to numbers after the "dot". I guess that won't work. Unless you just stick to numbers.



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JPD

Thanks JPD, that worked for what I needed. Actually your comments above allowed me to find the variables I needed to pass the UserID around on my Templates.
The example I gave was "off the cuff". I use the variable as DBMan sends it.

Thanks.
TimRyan

[This message has been edited by timryan (edited August 26, 1999).]