Re: good delimiter in data for Perl

You seem to be confused about the distinction between data and code. Perl has no problem with using a record or field separator of $#$ . Personally, I prefer the tabulator (chr 09) as a universal field separator. Why do you think that Perl has a problem with using $#$ as a separator?

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Re^2: good delimiter in data for Perl by sathiya.sw (Monk) on Jan 07, 2009 at 15:01 UTC
Perl has no problem in doing it. But when i use the $#$ as the delimiter, then i need to escape it to avoid interpreting it as variable.. My data can have tabs also, so what i can have as delimiter was my question ? Sathiyamoorthy	[reply]
Re^3: good delimiter in data for Perl by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 07, 2009 at 15:07 UTC
Why not store the delimiter in a variable and then use that variable? `my $delimiter = '$#$'; my @columns = split /\Q$delimiter\E/, $data;` [download] So, again, I'm not sure why you see this as a problem, as Perl provides many convenient escaping mechanisms, like single quotes and quotemeta.	[reply] [d/l]