in reply to Split on metachar

Hi,

you can solve this problem by two ways.

1.way ---Using \Q and \E

@line = split /\Q$char\E/, $_;

2. way --- Using 'quotemeta'

$a='abcdef*2dfd'; $char='*'; $char=quotemeta($char); @line=split/$char/, $a; print "@line";

Thanks,

Gopal.R