Hi Monks,

I have 3 potential input files that user can input

8=FIX.4.2<SOH>

8=FIX.4.2^A (^A in text )

8=FIX.4.2^A (^A as a Control char hidden)

I want to split by the end character either <SOH> ^A or ^A

my split will work for \cA and <SOH> but I cant get it working for the text based ^A

Logic - 1) read the file in . 2) run through each line splitting on regex match for either text ^A or control A or <SOH . 3)stick in array .4) remove whitespace from array . 5) else throw error

Heres the code:

Problem is that if a tag is encounter like this : 8=A^A, it strips the first A instead of the ^A

I know its staring at me in the face but dunno why my regex ignores the text based ^A 

sub reader {
my $stream = "$somefile";
open( FILE, $stream ) or die "Cant open File:$!\n";
    while (<FILE>) {
     if ( $_ =~ m/[\^A\cA\<SOH\>]{1}/g ) {
                          @split= split /[\^A\cA\<SOH\>]+/g, $_;
 

            foreach my $line (@split) {
   foreach my $line (@split) { ( $line =~ s/[\s\n]{1,}//g );  }

}
}


 else {
            my $url = "http:/xxxxx.com/error.html";
            my $t = 0;    # time until redirect activates
            print "<META HTTP-EQUIV=refresh CONTENT=\"$t;URL=$url\">\n
+";
            last;
        }
}

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Thanks for your time. Penguin.

In reply to regex anchoring issue by penguin-attack

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