How do i split on \

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

I have a varible that contians the following information

$filename='K:\Piba0001\53\22136603.soa'
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I want to split the variable on the '\' character. I have tried

@STMT = split (/\/,$filename) ;
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but that doesn't seem to work. Can anyone help me out.

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Re: How do i do the following by dda (Friar) on Aug 09, 2002 at 12:30 UTC
You should escape '\' symbol with '\': @STMT = split (/\\/,$filename); --dda	[reply]
Re: How do i do the following by virtualsue (Vicar) on Aug 09, 2002 at 12:31 UTC
You are trying to split based on the regex 'escape' character, so you need to escape it. :-) `@stuff = split /\\/, $filename;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]