Re: split question

Anonymous Monk,
In this case, your pipe symbol is also a metacharacter. The following should work:

$delimiter = '|';
$delimiter = quotemeta $delimiter;
@list = split /$delimiter/ , $line;
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Cheers - L~R

Update:
Of course this is overkill - you could just escape it with a backslash. It just demonstrates how you would escape all metacharacters if they were not known ahead of time.

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Re: Re: split question by duff (Parson) on Jan 30, 2004 at 22:54 UTC
Of course this is overkill - you could just escape it with a backslash. I don't think it's overkill. Look carefully at the OP's code. If you'd told him just to back-whack his pipe, he probably would've repsonded with "that didn't work either" because he probably would have done `$delimiter = "\\|";` I think your response was just perfect. If only I'd hit the "create" button on my reply immediately rather than doing Real Work instead I'd've been first! Now I'm just lost in the shuffle ;-) duff	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: split question by Anonymous Monk on Jan 30, 2004 at 22:51 UTC
Yes, If I knew it ahead of time, this would be overkill. But, your idea worked like a charm. Thanks much!	[reply]