On Aug 12, Jerry Preston said: >I am trying to breakdown this line: > >"q4171","(08/11/03 23:30:48)","" > >with ( @data ) = split /[,|\"]/;#"
Either use the Text::CSV module from CPAN (or perhaps Text::CSV_XS), or else use a regex like the following: @fields = $str =~ m{ " [^"]* " | [^,]+ }xg; If you also want to strip quotes, you can do: @fields = map { s/^"// and s/"$// } $str =~ m{ ... }xg; (Just fill the regex in.) -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]