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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Changing the first character of a string.
Message-ID: <sean.646706730@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 90 00:45:30 GMT
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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How can I change an arbitrary character of a string? I've got a fixed length
string, $flags, that is used in a printf. I need to be able to do something
like:

	$flags = "   ";

	if ($mb_flags[$num] && $FL_UNREAD) {
		set first character of $flags to 'U';
	}
	if ($mb_flags[$num] && $FL_SENT) {
		set second character of $flags to 'S';
	}
	and so on

That's why we need a perl book. I've written 40 or so odd perl scripts, and
something this simple evades me.

Sean