Perl:String Functions

Perl:String Functions

Contains

Ends With

Equal Strings

Find Position

Formatting

Using Print Formatting

Lower Case

Join Strings

Starts With

String Length

Special Characters

Split a String

Substring

Upper Case

The methods and properties of the String type include:

my $s="Andrew was here"

Example	Value	Comment
$s." once"	"Andrew was here once"	The strings are concatenated using .
$s eq "another"	false	Tests for equality - use ne for not equals
index($s,"was")	7	Returns -1 if the substring is not there.
length($s)	15	The number of characters
split(" ",$s)	("Andrew","was","here")	Returns an array of String.
substr($s,2,7)	"drew"	Characters from position 2 to just before 7
uc($s)	"ANDREW WAS HERE"	Also lc()