Re^2: Delimeter Count?

The problem with the scalar option and split is that the number of fields is returned not the number of delimeters. The delimeter I was testing for was a pipe (|). Some of my records end with |||||| and some end with |fred|blogs. This produces a different result even if there are the same number of pipes.

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Re^3: Delimeter Count? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 28, 2005 at 15:32 UTC
Use `-1` as the third argument of `split`: `$rec = 'has\|trailing\|pipes\|\|\|'; print(scalar(split(/\\|/, $rec )), "\n"); # 3 print(scalar(split(/\\|/, $rec, -1)), "\n"); # 6` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Delimeter Count? by Fletch (Bishop) on Nov 28, 2005 at 15:34 UTC
Consult `perldoc -f split`, specifically the discussion of using a negative number as `LIMIT`.	[reply] [d/l]