in reply to Problem with split using a | seperator

split's argument is a regexp pattern. "|" is special in regexp patterns. 
split(/\|/, $record );

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Wouldn't hurt to use Text::CSV_XS...

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Re^2: Problem with split using a | seperator
by Grey Fox (Chaplain) on Jan 23, 2009 at 16:48 UTC
    Thanks;

    It's good to know that the split argument is a regex pattern. I changed it and it works great.

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      There's also quotemeta, as in: split quotemeta '|', $record;
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