I've got a tab delimited data file and having an issue.

Ok, in short, this is the problem code:

foreach $line (@file) {
($field1value, $field2value, $field3value, $field4value, $field5value,
+ $field6value, $field7value, $field8value, $field9value, $field10valu
+e) = split(/\t+/, $line);

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Using the above code, if, for example, the 7th spot for information is the database is blank, it puts whatever's in the 8th spot as 7th (it shifts them to the left. If 2 fields are blank, you come up 2 fields short at the end, etc.). In the database, the tabs are there, but it appears that my split command groups multiple ones together.

I'm taking the information from the file and importing it into a mySQL database, and obviously this causes problems.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

In reply to Tab delimited code problem? by WebmastTroy

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