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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Changing the first character of a string.
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Date: 2 Jul 90 15:39:57 GMT
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Of course, there's always:

	$flags =~ s/^./U/;

(If $flags doesn't contain newlines, or $(whatever) is 0.)

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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