Re: Announcing the Perl 5 Documentation Team

On 10-07-02 09:30 AM, Chas. Owens wrote:
> Proposed style:
>
> =item substr EXPR,OFFSET
>
> Extracts a substring out of EXPR and returns it.  First character is at
> offset C<0>, or whatever you've set C<$[>  to (but don't do that).
> If OFFSET is negative (or more precisely, less than C<$[>), starts
> that far from the end of the string.  If LENGTH is omitted, returns
> everything to the end of the string.  If LENGTH is negative, leaves that
> many characters off the end of the string.

What the heck is LENGTH?


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