Re: What is the fastest way to extract data from a delimited string?

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One thing that might help, with split, is to use the third arg to limit the number of columns it extracts. This will be especially helpful if there are a lot of columns to the right of the one that you want. --Dave

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Re: Re: What is the fastest way to extract data from a delimited string? by thezip (Vicar) on Jan 10, 2003 at 00:18 UTC
I have many files where $column will be near the end of the string, so this won't provide much benefit. I'm actually hoping that there is speedy regex solution for this... Where do you want them* to go today?*	[reply]

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