in reply to simple simple split

| is a special char in a regex, if you want to match a | verbatimely, escape it:

split m/\|/, $row;

Read perlretut and then perlre for more details.

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Re^2: simple simple split
by kevind0718 (Scribe) on Nov 01, 2007 at 17:29 UTC
    many thanks Monks.

    I will now stop banging my head.

    kd
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