Re: regex question: store multiple lines as a string

Just use split with a a separator /\n\n+/, and store the result in an array.

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Re^2: regex question: store multiple lines as a string by nurulnad (Acolyte) on Oct 12, 2010 at 09:18 UTC
I tried: `#!/usr/bin/perl open (data, 'data.txt') or die "die"; @words = split (/\n\n+/, <data>); print $words[0]; exit;` [download] and the output is only `line=ULMNm 3 1fdy_07 N-ACETYLNEURAMINATE LYASE user 1 3` can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: regex question: store multiple lines as a string by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 12, 2010 at 09:29 UTC
split evaluates its argument in scalar context, so you only get one line. Splitting one line by two newlines doesn't make much sense. `use strict; use warnings; use autodie; open my $f, '<', 'data.txt'; my @words = split /\n\n+/, do { local $/; <$f> }; close $f;` [download] Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.	[reply] [d/l]