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Old 06-25-2013
Why not simply bar="$foo:0:5"?
 

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Mojo::JSON::Pointer(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Mojo::JSON::Pointer(3pm)

NAME
Mojo::JSON::Pointer - JSON Pointers SYNOPSIS
use Mojo::JSON::Pointer; my $p = Mojo::JSON::Pointer->new; say $p->get({foo => [23, 'bar']}, '/foo/1'); say 'Contains "/foo".' if $p->contains({foo => [23, 'bar']}, '/foo'); DESCRIPTION
Mojo::JSON::Pointer implements JSON Pointers as described in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-json-pointer <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-json-pointer>. METHODS
"contains" my $success = $p->contains($data, '/foo/1'); Check if data structure contains a value that can be identified with the given JSON Pointer. # True $p->contains({foo => 'bar', baz => [4, 5, 6]}, '/foo'); $p->contains({foo => 'bar', baz => [4, 5, 6]}, '/baz/2'); # False $p->contains({foo => 'bar', baz => [4, 5, 6]}, '/bar'); $p->contains({foo => 'bar', baz => [4, 5, 6]}, '/baz/9'); "get" my $value = $p->get($data, '/foo/bar'); Extract value identified by the given JSON Pointer. # "bar" $p->get({foo => 'bar', baz => [4, 5, 6]}, '/foo'); # "4" $p->get({foo => 'bar', baz => [4, 5, 6]}, '/baz/0'); # "6" $p->get({foo => 'bar', baz => [4, 5, 6]}, '/baz/2'); SEE ALSO
Mojolicious, Mojolicious::Guides, <http://mojolicio.us>. perl v5.14.2 2012-09-05 Mojo::JSON::Pointer(3pm)
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