Tommy Nordgren wrote: > > Sep 21, 2005 kl. 9:54 PM skrev John W. Krahn: > >> Tommy Nordgren wrote: >> >>> How do you split a string on the equality character? >>> Neither split (/=/,$myvar) >>> nor split ('=',$myvar) >>> appears to work >> >> How does it not work? > > When called with the syntax I've used, it returns a list containing > a single string.
Maybe $myvar contains no data after the '=' character? > I'll try without the paranthesis. > Can it be that perl treats the entire source text between left and > right paranthesis as a regular expression. No, it treats the first argument (before the comma) as a regular expression (with or without parentheses.) John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>