Hello Zeus,

At 09:49 AM 1/29/2003 -0500, Zeus Odin wrote:
>I have spent a very LONG time trying to determine why this script is not
>splitting properly only on lines that have equals marks and only on the
>first equals.

I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do.  So below is a modified
version of your script which may shed some light on what is happening.

Regards,
- Robert

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# undef $/;

while (my $line=<DATA>) {
  chomp $line;
  print "=> $line\n";
  my @f = split(/\[.*\]|^(?:[^=]+)=|\s+/i, $line);
  print "==> @f\n";
  my @a = grep(length, @f);
  print "===> $_\n" for @a;
}

__DATA__
[DEFAULT]
BASEURL=http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
[DOC#17#19#21]
BASEURL=http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/splash.asp?page=3&x86=true&;
auenabled=false&
ORIGURL=splash.asp?page=0&corporate=false&
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
Modified=B059DD590A4BC20157


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