A Diumenge 10 Setembre 2006 01:56, Robert Krueger va escriure:
> Hi,
> I bought 3 books a few days ago on Perl, and things are going well with
> one exception.
>
> An example:
>
> @line = "this is a very long line word1+word2+word3 and it contines on and
> on";
>
> The object is to execute a split using "+" so I end up with word1, word2,
> and word3, so I do this:
>
> my @line = split('\+');
>
> According to the books, I should end up with this:
> $line[0] = word1
> $line[1] = word2
> $line[3] = word3
>
> Instead it ends up to be this:
> $line[0] = this is a very long line word1
> $line[1] = word2
> $line[3] = word3 and it contines on and on
>
> I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
> Can someone explain?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
Syntax of split function is: @fields = split /separator/, $string; (using
default split is: @fields = split;).
Using 'separator' you're taking a literal as a separator.
--
Xavier Mas
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