Chapter 15. Strings and Sorting

Chapter 15. Strings and Sorting

As we mentioned near the beginning of this book, Perl is designed to be good at solving programming problems that are about 90% working with text and 10% everything else. So it's no surprise that Perl has strong text processing abilities, including all that we've done with regular expressions. But sometimes the regular expression engine is too fancy, and you'll need a simpler way of working with a string, as we'll see in this chapter.