On Dec 17, LoneWolf said: >I am parsing a massive file line by line and cleaning it up. It has about >15 fields, all separated by | and I want to remove the white space from >before and after the pipes so that as the information is parsed it gets rid >of external white spaces from the string and such.
Then split on /\s*\|\s*/. That regex reads "zero or more whitespace, a |, then zero or more whitespace". @fields = split /\s*\|\s*/, $line; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <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] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
