splitting data

BluGeni has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to get a grasp on splitting strings and arrays with perl but am having a little problem. my first page puts data into a database so it can be called upon later. its going in like this:

$writetot=$busitotal."/".$perstotal;
        $STH1->execute($writetot,$name)
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and is being called by data[1] , data[2] ect.. my goal here is to split $writetot so i have 2 different outcomes and don't have it displaying $busitotal/$perstotal. I need to split it because of the data already in the data base will not change and i need to separate the 2 so i can put $busitotal and $perstotal in 2 dif catagories. any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you

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Re: splitting data by Kenosis (Priest) on May 16, 2012 at 17:19 UTC
Try the following: `use Modern::Perl; my $writetot = 'first part/second part'; my ($busitotal, $perstotal) = split '/', $writetot; say "$busitotal -- $perstotal";` [download] Output: `first part -- second part` [download] Hope this helps!	[reply] [d/l] [select]