in reply to Problem with Split function

Read the documentation for split. The first argument to split is a regular expression. A dot has a special meaning in a regular expression. To use it as a real dot you need to escape it.

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Re^2: Problem with Split function
by Wampa (Hermit) on Jul 28, 2004 at 09:14 UTC

    This is corect and work.

    @field = split(/\./,$script);
   $script = $field[0]

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