Great explanation. Now it works well. Thanks to all and I appreciate all feedbak help. -Wil
"Bob Showalter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
