I came across this snippet of code, in somebody's old
code.
($cellname = $split_cellname) =~ s/:.*//;
I would like to understand the usage of this statement
in general, but in particular, i would like to know
the significance of of the colon(:) character in the
split function.
Thanks
PN
Its not a split.its a substitute. What this snippet is doing is removing
anything that follows a colon and a dot.
Prachi.
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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:45
(//)
= and move this value to $cellname
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Subject: Re: colon(:) in split --- what does it mean ?
I came across this snippet of code, in somebody's old
code.
($cellname
Shishir K. Singh wrote:
Probably the record is like
$split_cellname = ABCDEFGHIJK:12345678
($cellname = $split_cellname) =~ s/:.*//;
$cellname will now have ABCDEFGHIJK
$split_cellname =~ s/:.*//
= substitute any character starting with : till the end of the string (s/:.*/),
