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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>
+";

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    (where the first < matches a )

    you really need a parser to do this kind of thing "right".

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