On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 04:51:51PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 09:47:43AM -0600, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 01:15:47PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 07:46:21AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: > > > > Assuming that there's no need to handle fields with embedded spaces, > > > > perl's split() function will DTRT. > > > > > > No, it does not because there are fields that can be empty. > > > > This seems to work fine for me: > > > > $ perl -e 'my @x = split(/,/, "a,b,,c"); print "1:$x[0] 2:$x[1] 3:$x[2] > > 4:$x[3]\n";' > > 1:a 2:b 3: 4:c > > Doesn't work for something like: > 176 -- 432456 500000 500000 3400 25000 25000 > 177 ++ 105464 1 1 none 2173 1 1 none
I could have sworn we were talking about delimited fields, not fixed width fields, but now I can't find where that was mentioned. I guess I must have been imagining things. :) Obviously, for fixed width fields using split() isn't appropriate. eric
