in reply to difficult to split on "|"

The 'pipe' sign is a meta character in perl's regular expressions, you need to escape it if you mean a literal "|": 
my @fields = split(/\|/,$line);

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Re^2: difficult to split on "|"
by jjohhn (Scribe) on May 14, 2005 at 03:11 UTC
    Thanks. The answer is obvous now that you showed me.
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