When I tried this example, I had some problems with it, and I think there are 2 issues:

1) the order of the arguments (I needed to order them as perl -paipage.txt -F"[;:]" -e to avoid the error

Can't open my $out=shift @F;print "<a href=mysite.net/$out>$out</a>\n"
+;: No such file or directory.

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and 2), the script didn't seem to handle multiple matches on the same line (that I think the original did)

'map { print "<a href=mysite.net/$_>$_</a>\n" } @F'

then I realized that this still didn't handle the way that awk deals with white space, so the one line got longer when I added split(" ",$_)

perl -F"[:;]" -lane 'map { ($_)=split " ",$_; print "<a href=mysite.ne
+t/$_ >$_</a>" } @F'

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given test data like

a b ; d e : f g : ; x

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In reply to Re^2: sed awk to perl help by dcd
in thread sed awk to perl help by Anonymous Monk

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