Aside: is there a way for me to reply to my own thread, or do I have to 'reply' to a specific response?

Thanks for the ideas everyone... I'm still getting the hang of perl, but I always learn a tremendous amount when I spend time on these forums. Comments on the first three replies:

1 That regexp took me a while to understand, as I wasn't familiar with "?:", but I finally managed to grok it :)

2 Cool, I didn't realize that I could use a negative limit in the split function to address this problem.

3 I see your point... it would be far more economical to go that route (in combination with the modification to split proposed in number 2)

Thanks again!

Retitled by holli from 'Followup'.

In reply to Re: Looking for elegant solution to dbi coding problem by Commander Salamander
in thread Looking for elegant solution to dbi coding problem by Commander Salamander

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