RE: thanks, i'm new. rtfm right? :)

My solution would be to use spilt(), because L love split().
try something like "($tempflie, $garbage) = split(/./);"
this should split $_ at any "." into $
tempfile and $garbage. I beleive that if there isn't a "."
it doesn't split anything up.

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RE: RE: thanks, i'm new. rtfm right? :) by extremely (Priest) on Oct 27, 2000 at 03:18 UTC
I can't believe someone mod'ed this down without pointing out why... If you want to split on the period char you need to do it one of these ways... `split(/\./); # or split(/[.]/);` [download] The period is special in regular expressions, like the one split uses to find separators. You just told split that every character was a legal separator and if you do that you get a big fat nada... -- $you = new YOU; honk() if $you->love(perl)	[reply] [d/l]

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RE: RE: thanks, i'm new. rtfm right? :)
by extremely (Priest) on Oct 27, 2000 at 03:18 UTC

If you want to split on the period char you need to do it one of these ways...

split(/\./);
# or
split(/[.]/);
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The period is special in regular expressions, like the one split uses to find separators. You just told split that every character was a legal separator and if you do that you get a big fat nada...

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