OK, I got it working... First of all, if you leave out the pattern, the default delimiter is any white space, which suits my needs fine.
When I changed the code to this everything worked fine: $_ = `some command`; chomp; @fields = split; I'm not sure why the other form didn't work. -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 3:21 PM To: Eric Hennessey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A silly (I think) question At 02:11 PM 9/15/2003 -0400, Eric Hennessey wrote: >I've got an issue with a split function, or at least I THINK that's where >I'm having the problem. > >Given that $line is one line of output from a command in column format, I >run the following: > >$line = `some command`; >chomp $line; >@fields = split $line; > >This should produce a list of strings from $line, right? > >Any idea why I'd have an empty list when $line contains the expected data >as verified from a print command? try @fields = split /seperator/, $line; _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
