I have a bunch of text files that follow the format variable = value <crlf>
I am trying to read each file and insert it into SQL but before I can do that I need to parse the values into a hash. One of the fields has the URL which can contain & and = characters, so after the first split I seem to miss the rest. I tried using the LIMIT feature of split which if I am reading it correctly 'limits the amount of times it will split'. But I am not getting the desired results. See example TEXT FILE HAS THIS $method="GET"; $engname="SurfGopher"; $line="http://www.surfgopher.com/cgi-bin/submit.cgi";; $myquery="url=$url&email=$email&i_rank=yes"; When I run the script and print the output I get this MYQUERY = value = www.surfgopher.com/cgi-bin/submit.cgi value = GET value = SurfGopher THIS IS THE LINE OF CODE USING SPLIT if ($_ =~ /^\$myquery/) { (undef, $line{myquery}) = split(/=/, $_, 1) } THIS IS THE LINE PRINTING THE OUTPUT IN QUESTION print "MYQUERY = $line{myquery}\n"; I could just do a $line =~ s/\$myquery\=//; and be done with it, but I want to know why and how to use the LIMIT argument. Thanks zack -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
