No doubt I am going to kick myself in the head when I get the answer to this questions, but here goes anyway.. ;-) I have a set of strings that I am reading from a file. The data looks like this: 
SERVER1/OU=00/OU=LOCATION/O=COMPANY
SERVER2/OU=00/OU=LOCATION/O=COMPANY
SERVERXYZ6/OU=00/OU=LOCATION/O=COMPANY
SERVERFOOBAR/OU=01/OU=LOCATION/O=COMPANY

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The name of the server in each string comes before the first "/" character, and I need to extract that into another string variable. The server name is variable in length. I don't care about what comes after that first "/" character in the line. I was trying to use the split command, but I have been having a lot of problem escaping the "/"'s used to specify the character to use for the split. In addition, I get errors that appear to make no sense when I use the following, where $serverID is the string that I have read in from the file: 
 
            $cnID = split("/", $serverID);
            print $cnID . "\n";

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Can someone give me a pointer (no pun intended) on where I am going wrong here? This seems pretty straightforward, but obviously I am doing something incorrectly. Thanks for any ideas...

Originally posted as a Categorized Question.

In reply to Splitting a string... Duh? by KenShackelford

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