# strxmltext is a string variable sent by the webserver and will conta
+in a semicolon
my $stringvariabe = $args{strxmltext};

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So, if "$stringvariabe" contains a value like "item1;bottle", and you want to "parse" that, do you mean that you want to split on semicolon to get a "name, value" pair -- like this? 
my ( $name, $value ) = split /;/, $stringvariabe;

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If you sometimes get three or more strings separated by semicolons, you probably want to assign the result of split to an array: 
my @strings = split /;/, $stringvariabe;

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Is there something more complicated about the task that you haven't mentioned yet?

In reply to Re^3: Semicolons in webforms by graff
in thread Semicolons in webforms by dmaranan

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