Hi Monks

I'm hoping someone can assist with if there is a way to split on the results of a split command as a one liner.

For example, I have swift tags formatted like the one below and I want to ultimately stuff the values separated by whitespace (ISIN and DE000GH2MY35) into my aref variable.

:35B:ISIN DE000GH2MY35

  $aref = [split(split /:/, $_) [1]];

I thought the above line would do it, but it's not working. I thought the interior split would give me the values (ISIN DE000GH2MY35) and then the outer split just splits on whitespace by default so i'd end up with $aref->[0] evaluating to 'ISIN' and $aref->1 evaluating to 'DE000GH2MY35', but i'm getting a syntax error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to split on split? by dirtdog

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