SPUG: help with split

Jim Flanagan jimfl at colltech.com
Thu Jun 7 19:37:30 CDT 2001


--Also Sprache "Brose, Eric" <eric.brose at attws.com> On Thursday, June 7, 
2001 5:01 PM -0700:

     > I'd like to use the split function, but my delimeter is a decimal
     > point and split doesn't like that.

  Actually, split likes it too much. Split uses the dot to match any
  character. To stop split from interpreting the dot as a special charater,
  just put a backslash in front of it.

    @stuff = split(/\./, $thingy);

--
Jim Flanagan          Senior Consultant, Collective Technologies
jimfl at colltech.com   http://www.colltech.com

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