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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl substr or similar help Post 303025174 by azdps on Thursday 25th of October 2018 08:18:06 PM
Old 10-25-2018
So I figured out a solution for myself.

Note: Below is just a small portion of my entire HTML string. The entire HTML string contains roughly 17,500 characters.

<input type='hidden' name='token' value='1685540303'>

Code:
my $loc = index($content, 'token');        # find start of token in entire string
my $str = substr $content, $loc + 12, 19;  # get text starting at value and ending at >
$str =~ m/'(.*?)'/;                        # get text between single quotes
my $result = $1;                           # move text into variable result


If someone can refine this please feel free to post it. Thank you.
 

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Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitLvalueSuUser(Contributed Perl DocumPerl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitLvalueSubstr(3)

NAME
Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitLvalueSubstr - Use 4-argument "substr" instead of writing "substr($foo, 2, 6) = $bar". AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution. DESCRIPTION
Conway discourages the use of "substr()" as an lvalue, instead recommending that the 4-argument version of "substr()" be used instead. substr($something, 1, 2) = $newvalue; # not ok substr($something, 1, 2, $newvalue); # ok The four-argument form of "substr()" was introduced in Perl 5.005. This policy does not report violations on code which explicitly specifies an earlier version of Perl (e.g. "use 5.004;"). CONFIGURATION
This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options. SEE ALSO
"substr" in perlfunc (or "perldoc -f substr"). "4th argument to substr" in perl5005delta AUTHOR
Graham TerMarsch <graham@howlingfrog.com> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Graham TerMarsch. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.16.3 2014-06-09 Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitLvalueSubstr(3)
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