[PMX:#] Re: Variable in split function

[Sumit]

Thanks to everyone for the effort to look into this. Actually I wrote this email 2 days ago and have no idea how come it got published today. Anyway my pattern was '$#$' and after putting the backslashes into the pattern it seemed to work i.e. '\$\#\$'. Any idea why that would work?? Was the parser looking for a value of $#.   thanks again to all. ----- Original Message ----- From: Trevor Joerges [SendMIME Software] To: Sumit Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:14 PM Subject: Re: Variable in split function What does your $Line look like? Your code works fine for me when I use something like this:   $pattern = ":"; $Line = "A:B:C:D:E"; @Arr = split(/$pattern/, $Line); print "@Arr", "\n"; print $Arr[0], "\n"; Kind regards, Trevor Joerges ---------------------------------------------------- $_=q;rrUSFWPSZK.ZKPFSHFT,rkvtuZbopuifsZQZibdl rrqpxfsfeZcyZQ,,riuuq://xxx.%.dpn,ru~@%.dpn ,,rrr8-),,;;s;\~;kpfshft;g;s;\%;tfoenjnf;g;y;B-x;A-w;; s;P;perl;g;s;,;\n;g;s;Y; ;g;s;q;\t;g;print; ---------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Sumit Cc: recipient list not shown: Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 5:44 PM Subject: Variable in split function Hi all, Can we use a variable in the /PATTERN/ argument of the split function. I tried it but was not able to get it to work. Is there something I am missing??   $pattern = ":"; @Arr = split(/$pattern/, $Line);   puts the whole $Line as the first element in the array without splitting.   Thanks in advance and a Happy New Year.