splitting on new-line characters

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Re: splitting on new-line characters by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Nov 28, 2002 at 11:40 UTC
Could you be a bit more specific than "it doesn't work"? What is the content of `$array`? What is in `@array` after you did the split? What do you expect `@array` to contain? See, the line of code you gave means: split the content of `$array` on newlines, and put the resulting parts in `@array`. Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: splitting on new-line characters by broquaint (Abbot) on Nov 28, 2002 at 11:43 UTC
Check `$array` actually has some newlines in it, as that code should work fine e.g `my $str = <<TXT; foo bar baz TXT print "[$_]" for split /\n/, $str; __output__ [foo][bar][baz]` [download] HTH `_________ broquaint`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: splitting on new-line characters by UnderMine (Friar) on Nov 28, 2002 at 11:47 UTC
Are you sure it is a new line? Careful when parsing files on a different platform from the one that generated it (ie. Unix file on Windows). Have you tried :- `my @array = split /[\n\r\l]*/, $array;` [download] Hope it helps UnderMine	[reply] [d/l]
Re: splitting on new-line characters by thinker (Parson) on Nov 28, 2002 at 11:42 UTC
Hi AM, have you tried `open FILE, "filename"; my @array = <FILE>;` [download] Hope this helps thinker	[reply] [d/l]
Re: splitting on new-line characters by Ryszard (Priest) on Nov 28, 2002 at 11:52 UTC
`@ary = split(/0d0a/,unpack("H*",$array) );`? :-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: splitting on new-line characters by UnderMine (Friar) on Nov 28, 2002 at 12:15 UTC
You will need to repack the data afterwards :- `@array=map(pack('H',$_),(split /0d0a/,unpack("H",$array)));` [download] Hope it helps UnderMine	[reply] [d/l]