Re: Re: Stripping a seemingly complicated comma-delimited file

yeh i can get it into an array but its really messy. you're talking about pushing each value seperated by a comma into an array variable which ive done ... but it wont help. effectively im trying to break each line into 14 variables. those variables will ultimately be shoved into a db table. So i need to 14 $variables that in the loop will keep generating new values and populate the db table. i'd prefer not to use the CSV module,actually trying to learn the hard way :>

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Re: Re: Re: Stripping a seemingly complicated comma-delimited file by the_slycer (Chaplain) on Jun 11, 2001 at 18:08 UTC
Well in that case instead of using `@array=split/,/,$_` just use the `($var1,$var2...)` syntax, no real difference (Though personally I'd rather assign to the array and call the values by `$array[5]` instead of `$var5` :-). Not using CSV is your perogative, though if any of your fields have any chance of having an embedded comma in them, it gets tricky to split the values.	[reply] [d/l] [select]