On Jul 17, Michael D. Risser said: >Can anyone tell me what the escape sequence for the field seprator (^]) >is, or point me to where I can find it? Basically I need to do a split >on it to parse some records.
On the offchance that you REALLY do need ^], you can get the character in Perl via: $fs = "\c]"; @fields = split $fs, $string; # or, more directly @fields = split /\c]/, $string; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
