The pipe symbol "|" is a special character. You need to escape it with a backslash "\" before you can use it inside a string. Here is the right way to do it: 

$myline = "192.168.0.1\|run\|C:\\run.com\|";
($ip, $appid, $apppath, $extra) = split(/\|/, $myline);
print "$apppath\n";

This will give you exactly what you want: 

C:\run.com

If you don't want to bother with escaping the pipe symbol, avoid using the pipe symbol and pick another character as the field separator instead.

roytc

In reply to Re: split by Anonymous Monk
in thread surprised by split by akm2

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