On Fri, 2006-28-04 at 14:16 -0500, Rance Hall wrote: > here is the prelim setup: > > my $delimiter = ";;;"; > my $teststring = "name;;;encryptedpassword;;;date"; > > my @userdetails = split($delimiter, $teststring); > > here is the goal: > > I would like to find a delimiter value that I can use to both create and > read from a flat-file database where splitting on the $delimiter doesn't > improperly split either the encryptedpassword value, or a reasonable > date format. > > Question: > > What would a good value for $delimiter be?
The only way to guarantee that your delimiter won't be part of the data is to make it longer than any possible field. That way, it would be impossible for your encryption algorithm to accidentally create it. -- __END__ Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
