On 11/13/07, Brown, Rodrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I split a string based on this char? Or even print it in perl
Do you know specifically which character you want? Any character may be represented by a backslash escape in a literal string. If you can find your character on an ASCII table, you can use its hex or octal code. Here's one ASCII table: http://www.engplanet.com/content/asciitable.html The control character named SOH has the hex code of 01, so that would become "\x01" in a double-quoted string. You'd write it the same way in a split pattern: my @pieces = split /\x01/, $data; There are other ways to do it. All of the backslash escapes are documented under "Quote and Quote-like Operators" in the perlop manpage: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators Is that all you needed? Cheers! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/