in reply to Reading individual variables from a file.

You want to look at split.
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Re: Re: Reading individual variables from a file.
by shotgunefx (Parson) on Jun 17, 2002 at 21:49 UTC
    Using split will fail if any of the input contains a comma. It's more likely than people think. Over the years I've run into many problems with customers and vendors who have bad product data feeds because they used a simple split and call is CSV.

    I'd highly recommend Text::CSV_XS

    -Lee

    "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."
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