After seeing the e-mails about "Perl for Oracle-DBAs", I presume, my question wouldn't be completely inappropriate for this list. So if you Oracle Gurus, can help me with this Perl problem, I would greatly appreciate it. I have a problem with "split" when my delimiter is "|". I know that if I escape the pipe, split should work, that is only when it is a literal like split(/\|/, "abc|def|123)
But when my delimiter is to be dynamically read from a file, I have it in a variable. Then this escaping stuff doesn't work...... eg: my $HeaderAttributes = "abc|defgh|123"; print "$HeaderAttributes\n"; my $Delimiter = "\|"; (@Fields) = split(/$Delimiter/, $HeaderAttributes); print "Delimiter = $Delimiter.... Field[0] = $Fields[0]\n"; prints a instead of abc. Does somebody have a solution to this. Thanks much. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Celine John INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).