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Old 05-29-2008
how to remove first word
Hi,

i have a question about to remove first word from a sentence.

my script;
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

$msgtxt = "this is a test script";

my @ap_txtMsg = split(/ +/, trim_data($msgtxt));

$ap_msgtxt = splice (@ap_txtMsg, 0, 1);

print $ap_msgtxt;

but the output is first word that i want to remove "this".

how i to make the ouput "is a test script" ?

TQ.
# 2  
Old 05-29-2008
splice manipulates the array, and returns what was removed from it. After the splice, @ap_txtMsg will contain everything except the first word. So that's apparently what you will want to print.

To only remove the first word, and leave the spaces etc intact, perhaps what you want is really

Code:
$msgtxt =~ s/^\S+\s+//

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