Ah....split. Forgot about that (Perl is new frontier); Split is now my friend; thanks all.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:14 AM > To: 'Faymon, Kurt'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Reading lines in variable > > > > Assuming that each "line" of your variable is separated by a > \n, you can use > the split() function. > > my @array = split /\n/,$variable; > > -----Original Message----- > From: Faymon, Kurt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Reading lines in variable > > > > Simple for some (most), perplexing me: > > have a variable, say $Record which contains many lines > (actually codes), > like: > > <p> > <h> > <link> > <ref> > So on.... > > How can I roll through the value of the variable, capturing > each line and > pushing it onto an array? > > Kind like reading entries in a cfg file (one on each line) > and putting them > in array? > > thanks > > kf > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]