Re^3: split on commas

With comments:

$_ = "<*2>FOO<2,1>,<*3>(SigB<8:0:2>,BAR),<*2>Siga<2:0>,Sigb<8,7,6,5,0>
+";
@line = split(/ ,         # comma...
                (?!       # not followed by
                   [\w,]+ #    "word" characters or commas and
                   [>)]   #    a close-bracket or close-paren
                )
              /x, $_);
print join($/, @line), $/;
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Re^4: split on commas by pip9ball (Acolyte) on Jun 05, 2009 at 22:12 UTC
Thanks!	[reply]
Re^5: split on commas by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Jun 09, 2009 at 18:06 UTC
the problem with this approach is that it erroneously accepts input such as `$_ = "<2)FOO<2,1>,<3>(SigB<8:0:2>,BAR),<*2>Siga<2:0>,Sigb<8,7,6,5,0> +";` [download] (where the first < matches a ) you really need a parser to do this kind of thing "right".	[reply] [d/l]