> -----Original Message-----
> From: Singh, Ajit p [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:11 PM
> To: Singh, Ajit p; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: splitting with special characters
>
>
> 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 (/\//,$mystring) -- gives me abcdefghi
Your syntax is ok.
split (/\//,$mystring) actually retuns an array.
In your case this array will be ('abcde', 'fghi').
use Data::Dumper;
my @array=split /\//,$mystring;
print Dumper [EMAIL PROTECTED];
#you did probably
#print @array;
#that's why you have seen abcdefghi ;)
José.
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