hi, I'm a newbee on perl and I have a problem using the simple function split I want to use a delimiter as a parameter given by a comand line( i use getopts, and it works ). I store it in the scalar $delimiter in my script, and I want to split a line with it. I tried several syntaxes but none is working : 
@array = split ( /$delimiter/, $line ); 
@array = split ( /"$delimiter"/, $line ); 
@array = split ( $delimiter, $line ); 
@array = split ( '$delimiter', $line ); 
@array = split ( /\$delimiter/, $line );

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when i do a print $delimiter, it prints the right thing : | (for example ) and when I do : @array = split ( /\|/, $line ); it works well ! but 'cause the delimiter can be different : or ; I have to pass It to my script as a parameter Has anybody an idea about the split syntax , in that case ? I've been searchin' in the perl cookbook, but nothing helps I need help ! thanks

In reply to problem with split function by jclaudio

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