Catman...string(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, so Catmandu::Fix::substring is a lil Fix that pulls a substring out of the value of a field. that's it, that's the whole job, and it does it flawlessly ✨

it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the manual universe, and the page goes by Catman...string(3pm) if you're out here searching for it by name. iykyk 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

# Extract a substring out of the value of a field
# - Extact from 'initials' the characters at offset 0 (first character) with a length 3
substring(initials, 0, 3)

so like, real talk: this grabs the characters at offset 0 (that's the first character, bestie, not the second, don't play yourself) from the field initials, and takes a length of 3. three characters. starting at the very front. slay 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Catmandu::Fix — the whole Fix ecosystem, the mothership, the main character 👑
• substr — the classic Perl original, no cap 💜

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and that's the whole vibe 🦋 this page is perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-01-24, and it's giving "short but iconic." go forth and substring, bestie 🌸💖