On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, eric wang wrote:
> how do i split on underscore?( _ ) and on hyphen? ( - )?
>
> i tried split(/\_/, $var) but didn't work
> and I also tried split ('_', $var) but didn't work also.
You should be able to split directly on _ and - :
$ perl -e '$str =q(a_string); foreach (split /_/, $str) { print "$_\n"}'
a
string
$ perl -e '$str = q(a-string); foreach (split /-/, $str) { print "$_\n"}'
a
string
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