Rob Benton wrote:
I've got a problem I think there may be a straight-forward solution to
that I just don't know. I have a program that reads a variable-length
input file. And the field delimiter of that file is given as an
argument. The problem is something like pipe "|" might show up as the
delimiter. So is there a way to quote/protect that in the split()
function without it being interpreted as a regex special character?
Something like:
./myprog.pl "|"
myprog.pl:
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my $delimiter = $ARGV[0];
my @fields = split(/$delimiter/, $line);
That's a FAQ.
perldoc -q "How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?"
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