08 Strings

$mystring = "Gary Beene"
$mystring = 'Gary Beene'

$total = $mystring1 + $mystring2

Single or double quotes are allowed .
if double quotes are used, variables placed inside the quotes are replaced with their value (interpolated) .
if single quotes are used, interpolation is not performed .

Example:
$mystring1 = "X"
$mystring2 = "aaa$mystring1bbb"

In this example, $mystring2 contains "aaaXbbb"

Some important built - in Perl string functions include:

split     

1.   @myarray = split ( / / , "The dog is mine" )     # split string into array
                                                # / / gives pattern for the split
2.   @myarray = split (//, "The dog is mine" )     # // splits string into individual characters
3.   @myarray = split ( "The dog is ming" )         # if // is left out, whitespace is used
4.   @myarray = split (/,/)                       # if string is left out, split uses $_
5.  ( $a , $b , $c ) = split (/,/, "One,Two,Three" )    # string is split and assigned to variables

join

1.   @myarray = join ( / / , ( $a , $b , $c )     # split string into array
                                                # / / gives pattern for the split
2.   @myarray = split (//, "The dog is mine" )     # // splits string into individual characters
3.   @myarray = split ( "The dog is ming" )         # if // is left out, whitespace is used
4.   @myarray = split (/,/)                       # if string is left out, split uses $_
5.  ( $a , $b , $c ) = split (/,/, "One,Two,Three" )    # string is split and assigned to variables


reverse   1. string   $newstring = reverse "1234"    # reverses the string
         2. array    @newarray = reverse @myarray   # reverses the elements

search
   1. index         index string, substring, start_position     # return position of substring
                                                               # 0 is far left position
   2. rindex        index string, substring, start_position     # from right, not left
   3. substr       string, offset, length                      # extract part of a string
                                                               # negative offset start from right

replace
    substr ( $a ,0,1) = "replacestring"     # replace 1st character with replacestring
    substr ( $a ,0,0) = "replacestring"     # put string at front of replacestring
    substr ( $a , - 7,7) = "replacestring"    # replace last 7 characters with replacestring

    tr /searchlist/replacementlist         # replace 1st list with 2nd list  
           tr /ABC/XYZ/;                   # replace A's with X's, B's with Y's, C's, with Z's
                                         # work on $_