I think whats happening is your printing the entire array @result_from_split...do
@result_from_split[0] and so on..
Mandar
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>Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 08:19:45 -0500
>From: James Edward Gray II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: splitting with special characters
>To: "Singh, Ajit p" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Jun 3, 2004, at 8:11 AM, Singh, Ajit p wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am trying to split a string with the / ( forward slash) as the
>> marker.
>>
>> $mystring = "abcde/fghi"
>>
>> split (///,$mystring) -- gives me compile error
>> split (/\//,$mystring) -- gives me abcdefghi
>
>I hope not. The second one is fine:
>
> > perl -e 'print map { "[ $_ ]\n" } split /\//, "abcde/fghi"'
>[ abcde ]
>[ fghi ]
>
>I suspect something else is going on you're not telling us about.
>
>James
>
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