Re: Splitting blunder

1) Are you sure you aren't having issues with escaping characters?

$string ="\\Server\user";  #WRONG!
$string ='\\Server\user'; #right
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2) What does @tmp look like? Try Data::Dumper. Is $string being placed in element 0, or what?

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Re: Re: Splitting blunder by Juerd (Abbot) on Apr 08, 2002 at 18:13 UTC
$string ='\\Server\user'; #right Even with single quotes, backslash can escape delimiters and itself. `$string` be `\Server\user`. U28geW91IGNhbiBhbGwgcm90MTMgY W5kIHBhY2soKS4gQnV0IGRvIHlvdS ByZWNvZ25pc2UgQmFzZTY0IHdoZW4 geW91IHNlZSBpdD8gIC0tIEp1ZXJk	[reply]


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