#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $cut_first = sub { substr($_[0], 1, length($_[0])) }; my (undef, $nr1, $nr2) = split(/ /, ); print &$cut_first($nr1) ."\n"; print &$cut_first($nr2) ."\n"; __DATA__ T +53.7953465 +009.4032631 06-Jul-09 00:00:00 0