Perl | Useful String functions

A string in Perl is a scalar variable and start with a ($) sign and it can contain alphabets, numbers, special characters. The string can consist of a single word, a group of words or a multi-line paragraph. The String is defined by the user within a single quote (‘) or double quote (“).

Perl provides various functions to manipulate the string like any other programming language.
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# Perl program to demonstrate  
# string length function 
    
# string 
my $s = "geeksforgeeks"; 
    
# using length function & 
# displaying length 
print("Length: ", length($s));  
  
# Converting to Uppercase
print("\nTo Upper Case: "); 
print(uc($s), "\n"); 

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Output:


Length: 13
To Upper Case: GEEKSFORGEEKS






Some string functions of Perl are as follows:





Function
Description




chomp()
Used to remove the last trailing newline from the input string




length()
Finds length (number of characters) of a given string, or $_ if not specified




substr()
Returns a substring out of the string passed to the function starting from a given index up to the length specified




uc()
Returns the string passed to it after converting it into uppercase




ucfirst()
Returns the string VAR or $_ after converting the First character to uppercase




lc()
Returns a lowercased version of VAR, or $_ if VAR is omitted




lcfirst()
Returns the string VAR or $_ after converting the First character to lowercase




chr()
Returns a string representing a character whose Unicode code point is an integer




chop()
Returns a string representing a character whose Unicode code point is an integer




index()
Returns the position of the first occurrence of given substring (or pattern) in a string (or text)




rindex()
Returns the position of the last occurrence of the substring (or pattern) in the string (or text)




sprintf()
Uses Format provided by the user to return the formatted string with the use of the values in the list




ord()
Returns the ASCII value of the first character of a string




quotemeta()
It escapes all meta-characters in the value passed to it as parameter




split()
Used to split or cut a string into smaller sections or pieces






          
          
          
          

            

    

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