in reply to reading from a file and splitting

You could also access the data with a regex like this: 

/==/

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Then, you've broken the line into three parts: the part before the ==, the ==, and the part after. Assuming that == matches in the line, you can access these parts thus:

$` = the part before the ==

$& = "=="

$' = the part after the ==

the first example of split may be more appropriate for this type of thing though.

okay apparently I can't read questions either. Didn't see you _just_ wanted string(s) beginning with hi. My example would be more appropriate if, for some reason, you wanted this plus other, similarly formatted data;)

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Re: Re: reading from a file and splitting
by jweed (Chaplain) on Jan 17, 2004 at 01:39 UTC
    Since the use of these three variables causes such a huge program-wide performance hit, I would definately shy away from using them in a situation like this where split is so ideal.



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      thank you, this is what i ended up with: 
      open (file, "<file.txt");
  @file = <file>;
  close (file);
  foreach $line(@file){
   ($var1, $var2) = split(/\=\=/, $line);
   if($chat =~ /\b$var1\b/i){  #the item i was looking for
    print "$var2";
   }

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