Hi All, I have data in a tab delimited format like this (tabs might be lost in the formatting of the email).
A456/959 ScHe M920/1123 He D123/999 ChFl D123/949 AnFl S520/257 Sp T510/106 TePeHe T540/110 Te T875/1010 TeSc T875/1050 TeSc I need to split the 2nd column. The string is to be split into 2 characters , so ChFl becomes 'Ch, Fl' . I can't seem to find a RE that will split the data correctly. My best effort is below but is captures everything into $f[0], there is no splitting at all. I also tried my hand at a recursive subroutine but that caused a lot deep recursion errors. Can anyone offer a bit of advise here? Thanx, Dp. #!/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Text::Tabfile; my $file = 'myfile.txt'; my $tabfile = new Text::TabFile; $tabfile->open($file); my @headers = $tabfile->fields; while (my $row = $tabfile->read) { my $str = $row->{'code'}; my @f = split(/(?=\b[A-Z][a-z]\b)/, $str); print qq($row->{'number'}, "$f[0]" "$str"\n"); #print $row->{'number'},"\t"; #for (@f) { # print $_,','; #} #print "\n"; } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/