I think I don't quite understand how split() works. I'm currently working on a script, which reads a db full of raw entries of a dictionary and sorts and converts them into XeTeX format. I use hashes of hashes to store the entries.

The following part of the script should look if there two words seperated by ";", split them, put them in an array @engdict with all of the information that belongs to them. 

    for $_ (%edict) {    # for entries with more than one keyword
        if ($edict{$count}{english} =~ /;/) {
            @foo = split (/; /, $edict{$count}{english});
                for $_ (@foo) {    
                    $engdict[$no] = "\\textbf{".$foo[$_]."}";
                    print $foo[1];
                    $engdict[$no] = $engdict[$no]."\\textmd{$dict{$cou
+nt}{puma}}";
                    $engdict[$no] = $engdict[$no]."\\textit{$dict{$cou
+nt}{ps}}";
                    $no++;
                };
            delete $edict{$count};
        } else {
        $count++;
        };
    };

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