Think I figured it out properly.
if ($_ =~ /^\$myquery/) { quotemeta($_); (undef, $line{myquery}) =
split(/=/, $_, 2); }
This gives me MYQUERY = "url=$url&email=$email&i_rank=yes";
If this is not the 'proper' way please let me know of a better way.
Thanks
zack
"Zachary Buckholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>
>
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