-- Celine John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/05/02 06:43:25 -0800

> After seeing the e-mails about "Perl for Oracle-DBAs",
> I presume, my question wouldn't be completely
> inappropriate for this list.  
> So if you Oracle Gurus, can help me with this Perl
> problem,  I would greatly appreciate it.
> I have a problem with  "split"  when my delimiter is
> "|".  
> I know that if I escape the pipe, split should work, 
> that is only when it is a literal like
> split(/\|/, "abc|def|123)
> 
> But when my delimiter is to be dynamically read from a
> file,  I have it in a variable.  Then this escaping
> stuff doesn't work......
> eg: 
> my $HeaderAttributes = "abc|defgh|123";
> print "$HeaderAttributes\n";
> my $Delimiter = "\|";
> (@Fields) = split(/$Delimiter/, $HeaderAttributes);
> print "Delimiter = $Delimiter.... Field[0] =
> $Fields[0]\n";

Look up the '\Q' metachar (e.g., perldoc perlre and search for \Q).


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