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helmex has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, I am having problems splitting a string.
The string looks like this

$string=\\Server\user;
or sometimes
$string=\\Server\dir\user;

I tried to use the following statment:
@tmp=split(/\/,$string);
and
@tmp=split(/\\/,$string);
But when I try to print out elements of @tmp I get blank lines.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
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