Sorry about the horrible title, I couldn't help it.

So I am a newbie, and I know that this question must have been asked and answered before, but I cannot seem to construct a query to find it:

I want to read a file, and search for a pre-defined delimeter string (in this case "%"). I want to start getting data at that point and stuffing into an array as one item, until it comes to another "%", at which point it should start stuffing the data into the next item in the array. Basically you can think of what I'm doing as a random quote generator, but I want to go slightly elsewhere with it eventually, I'm just stuck here.

So at the moment I can open and close the file, and find the "%", but I don't know how to say "start shoving into @array until you find another '%'". I could post my code if anyone wants to see it, but I suspect at this point that would be more embarrassing than helpful.

Any help would be appreciated, TIA.
Also... should I have put this in categorized q&a?
--pvck

In reply to from $string to shining $string by pvck

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