S_Shrum
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Jan 12, 2001, 11:16 PM
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Re: How do I... User definable split character
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Well, normally I guess you would be right however...
In the case of special characters (i.e. the pipe character I refered to in my initial post); the syntax is like:
$field = split /\.../, $_
...it is the "\" (literal?) that is causing problems.
Example: create a flatfile out of the following data:
field1|field2
Sean|Shrum
The|Sleuth
Now, write the script to take the file and split the fields using a variable like:
$variable = "|";
$data = split /$variable/, ...
or
$data = split /\$variable/, ...
...bearing in mind that some characters need to have the pre-\ (like pipe characters) and some don't (like commas). I tried both; either does not work or it splits on every character.
I hope this makes sense to someone out there.
Sean Shrum
sean@shrum.net
PS. I still need to clean it up but if you wnat to give the script a look, I have moved a copy of the script to my site at:
http://www.shrum.net/db_table.pl
It currently is hard coded to handle the split function with "|"
PSS. This script works beautifully on my NT Intranet but after posting it to a UNIX machine (Host: 1dollarhosting.com) I get "Internal Server Error"? I have the Unix path information in the script. Did I code the script wrong for UNIX-use? Any help in getting this script to work on UNIX would be great.
(This post was edited by S_Shrum on Jan 12, 2001, 10:44 PM)
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