Hi: I am trying to extract some stuff from a string and not getting the expected results. I have looked through http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlre.html and can't seem to figure this one out. I have a string which is a sequence of words and each item is comma seperated field1, lengthof value1, value1,field2, length of value2, value2,field3,length of value3, value3 and so on After each field name I have the length of the value I want to split this string into an array using comma seperator, but the problem is some values have one or more commas within them. so for example my string might look like this $origString = "EMPLID,4,9066,USERID,7,W3LWEB1,TEXT,54,This is a test note, with some commas, and more commas,ADDR,3515421 Test Lane, Rockville, MD, USA,ESCALATION-LVL,1,0" My current code goes character by character and constructs what I want. But is very slow when this string gets large. TIA Ravi
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