Re: split at pipe character

you could always single quote and save yourself the trouble of escaping:

@code = split '|', $id;
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Update: I stand corrected. Thanx Juerd.

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Re: Re: split at pipe character by Juerd (Abbot) on Mar 04, 2002 at 18:56 UTC
Wrong. Many people think that, but any string that is not a single space (chr(32)) will implicitly be used as a regex, so `split '\|'` will still be `split /\|/` and thus equal `split //`. See also Perl6 RFC 361. ++ vs lbh qrpbqrq guvf hfvat n ge va Crey :) Nabgure bar vs lbh qvq fb jvgubhg ernqvat n znahny svefg. -- vs lbh hfrq OFQ pnrfne ;) - Whreq	[reply]