$restw(<count> <word list>)

• If the <count> argument is omitted the empty string is returned.
• This function returns the complement of $leftw(); that is,
• This function returns <word list> with the first <count> words removed.
• Remember that <word list> is a list of words.

This function is mostly useful when you know you want to always remove the first few words from an input string, regardless of what they are, and when there are a varying number of total arguments.

input list with given number of leading words removed

$restw(2 hello there how are you?)       returns "how are you?"
$restw(-1 hello there how are you?)      returns nothing
$restw(6 hello there how are you?)       returns nothing

This function first appeared in “+2” (post-ircII, pre-EPIC)