How to get the first word from a given string...

[parajaganesh]

How to get the first word from a given string in perl...

[KevinADC]

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Beginning Perl

[anjigorantla]

How to get the first word from a given string in perl...

Try this code, and modify as u required. i think this will enough for ur doubt.

$a="flintstones husband fred pal barney wife wilma pet dino";
if ($a) {
$a=~/^(.*?)\s/;
print $1;
}

[KevinADC]

Try this code, and modify as u required. i think this will enough for ur doubt.

$a="flintstones husband fred pal barney wife wilma pet dino";
if ($a) {
$a=~/^(.*?)\s/;
print $1;
}

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[Xmassey]

I would split each word using the space between each word as he splitter. Then I would place the shift of the new array into a scaler.