Re: Parsing a string into an array

2007-11-17 Thread John W . Krahn
On Friday 16 November 2007 13:28, AndrewMcHorney wrote: > Hello Hello, > I am getting a strange error Why do you think it is strange? Have you read the documentation for the split function and do you understand it? perldoc -f split > where I am trying to split a string into > an array. The s

Parsing a string into an array

2007-11-17 Thread AndrewMcHorney
Hello I am getting a strange error where I am trying to split a string into an array. The string is a line obtained from doing a directory of a disk. The error message is: Reference to nonexistent group in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/ Directory of C :\Documents and Settings\Andrew\Applica