Re: Split Operation

I was going to suggest

my @array = eval '(' . $test . ')';
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just for amusement, but it doesn't work. I think that I will probably never understand string eval properly.

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Re^2: Split Operation by falsedan (Initiate) on Aug 03, 2009 at 12:29 UTC
This fails: `my $test = "[a,b],c,'d',[e,[f,g,h,[i,j],k,l],m,n],o,p"; my @array = eval ( $test );` [download] This succeeds: `my $test = "[a,b,],c,'d',[e,[f,g,h,[i,j,],k,l,],m,n,],o,p"; my @array = eval ( $test );` [download] Don't forget `no strict 'subs';` or else all those unquoted single characters will be treated as barewords!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Split Operation by JadeNB (Chaplain) on Aug 03, 2009 at 15:22 UTC
The only difference that I can see is that the second code has (apparently spurious) commas at the end of every arrayref—is that correct? Why is it necessary? Of course you're right that what I wrote is far from `strict`-safe—thanks! Making it so would probably be harder than just giving the kind of solution the OP wanted, though. :-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Split Operation by xtype (Deacon) on Aug 03, 2009 at 19:08 UTC
`use strict; my $test="[a,b],c,'d',[e,[f,g,h,[i,j],k,l],m,n],o,p"; $test =~ s/([a-zA-Z])/"$1"/g; my @array = eval ( $test );` [download]	[reply] [d/l]