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Parsing Delimited String

keith73 Novice Nov 14, 2000, 9:09 AM Views: 285 Parsing Delimited String Have a string that I need to separate but only on the first delimit character. The string is delimited using | and I only need to separate it using the first word and then everything after becomes the value. product|name|type|price I could do a split, splice and join but I want to try to do it with one command. I've been trying to do this. ($item,$value) = /([^\|]*)/; this only gets me $item. I want name|type|price to become $value. I've tried adding to that match to account for everything after the first | including all remaing |'s and just can't get it to work. Any help is appreciated.

japhy Enthusiast Nov 14, 2000, 9:31 AM Views: 285 Re: Parsing Delimited String If you read the documentation for split(), you'll see that you can tell it to split it into a specific number of parts: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans serif">code:</font><HR> $str = "john jacob jingleheimer schmidt"; ($first,$mid1,$mid2,$last) = split ' ', $str; print "$first, $mid1, $mid2, $last\n"; # john, jacob, jingleheimer, schmidt ($first,$rest) = split ' ', $str, 2; print "$first, $rest\n"; # john, jacob jingleheimer schmidt </pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> ------------------ Jeff "japhy" Pinyan -- accomplished author, consultant, hacker, and teacher

keith73 Novice Nov 14, 2000, 9:54 AM Views: 285 Re: Parsing Delimited String Well smack me silly and call me slappy, I totally forgot about that. Thanks for refreshing my memory. Of course, now I have that song stuck in my head. "... his name is my name too..." -Keith