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in thread split a delimited file

Your second assumption is correct. I just looked up local, but I am not familiar with "$/". What does it do/mean? and where do I use it, within a {while (<open>)} statement, before/after the open (FILE, '$file') line? or do you mean to put my ($item1, $item2, $item3) in place of the "$/" ? Thaks for your help

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Re: Re: Re: split a delimited file
by jweed (Chaplain) on Feb 08, 2004 at 04:45 UTC
    Start your program with 
    local $/ = "\t::\t";

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    Then, when you use <FH>, it won't give you the next line but the next record, that us, up to the next occurance of "/t::/t". Then, within your while loop, your $_ is now something like (if "\n::\n" is the field separator) 
    uname
::
categ
::
title
::
locat
::
$desc
etc.

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    Then, just split that bad boy into individual fields like you do in your second code sample and you'll be set.

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Re: Re: Re: split a delimited file
by ysth (Canon) on Feb 09, 2004 at 04:06 UTC
    You can read about $/ and its effect on the readline (aka <>) operator in perldoc perlvar.
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