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Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitLvalueSubstr(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitLvalueSubstr(3)

Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitLvalueSubstr - Use 4-argument "substr" instead of writing "substr($foo, 2, 6) = $bar".

This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

Conway discourages the use of "substr()" as an lvalue, instead recommending that the 4-argument version of "substr()" be used instead.

    substr($something, 1, 2) = $newvalue;     # not ok
    substr($something, 1, 2, $newvalue);      # ok

The four-argument form of "substr()" was introduced in Perl 5.005. This policy does not report violations on code which explicitly specifies an earlier version of Perl (e.g. "use 5.004;").

This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.

"substr" in perlfunc (or "perldoc -f substr").

"4th argument to substr" in perl5005delta

Graham TerMarsch <graham@howlingfrog.com>

Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Graham TerMarsch. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

2022-04-08 perl v5.32.1

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