Wil wrote:
> @data = split ("\|",$line);
The double quotes are eating the backslash before split sees it. split()
treats the first arg as a regex (even if you pass it as a string), and the
pipe char needs to be escaped with a backslash in order to be treated as a
literal character. What you're doing is equivalent to:
split(/|/, $line)
which is a regex that matches an empty string. When you pass that kind of
regex to split(), you will get the input string split up into individual
characters.
You should write it like:
split(/\|/, $line)
or
split('\|', $line)
this will work (but don't do it this way) see why?
split("\\|", $line)
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