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Hi

works for me. 

[sandy]perl -e '$x="hello"; $y="thishelloyouhellotoday"; @a=split /$x/
+,$y; print "@a\n";'
this you today
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could you give us an example of what doesn't work?

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Re^2: Split Help
by de2425 (Sexton) on Mar 16, 2009 at 20:50 UTC

    Thanks for the super quick response! What I'm trying to do is to use the split to count the occurrences of the filename with the file. I just checked with a print statement and I am getting a split but for some reason, I cannot get the correct number of splits. I can visually count them but I can't seem to get any goot results from something like:

    print "$#lines\n";

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      Hmm.. here you are saying 

      print "$#lines\n";

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      but in the OP 

      @line=split(/$variable/,$_);

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      Maybe you mean @lines? or perhaps $#line?

      If you include

      use warnings;

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      at the top of your program, perl helps you emitting a warning if, by typo, you are using a variable only once.

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      $#lines contains the last index of the array @lines which may or may not be one less than the actual number of elements in the array @lines.   To get the actual number of elements of an array you must use the array in scalar context: 

      print scalar @lines, "\n";

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