On Jul 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Try using in the following way, >$DELIM_PIPE = '|'; >@data = split /[$DELIM_COMMA]/,$line;
You used different variable names. And this won't work in all cases. >@data = split /['|']/,$line; That splits on a | or a ' character, which is not is intended. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service http://japhy.perlmonk.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? http://www.perlmonks.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>