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in reply to Finding a pattern to split on

You don't want to split the file using s/\n/ms, that's a substitution operator. Use /\n/, a match operator.

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Re: Re: Finding a pattern to split on
by urburp (Initiate) on Dec 05, 2000 at 01:26 UTC

    Sorry, meant:

    split /\n/sm

    Ideas??

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      The following code should work fine, assuming $data contains what you're trying to split: 
      #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
use strict;
 
my $data = q|Title Line
    Author Line
    URL Line
|;
 
my @data = split /\s*\n\s*/, $data;
 
my $i;
for ($i=0; $i<=$#data; $i++){
    print "$i: $data[$i]\n";
}

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      However, if you're reading from a file, i suspect you want something more like this: 
      #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
use strict;
 
open DATA, 'splitdata.txt';
 
my @data;
while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    s|^\s+||;
    s|\s+$||;
    push @data, $_;
}
 
my $i;
for ($i=0; $i<=$#data; $i++){
    print "$i: $data[$i]\n";
}

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