Re: split slice question

2008-05-11 Thread Dr.Ruud
Richard Lee schreef: I use this before (split slice ) but it's working bit funny now.. it looks like it's splitting on '' instead of /|/ as I have specified below... ?? Look for quotemeta in perlre. -- Affijn, Ruud Gewoon is een tijger. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

split slice question

2008-05-10 Thread Richard Lee
I use this before (split slice ) but it's working bit funny now.. can someone tell me why?? it looks like it's splitting on '' instead of /|/ as I have specified below... ?? use strict; use warnings; my $array = q/hi|how|are|you|fine/; my ($moe,$hae,$now) = (split(/|/,$array))[0,1,2];

Re: split slice question

2008-05-10 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Richard Lee wrote: my ($moe,$hae,$now) = (split(/|/,$array))[0,1,2]; '|' is special in a regular expression and needs to be escaped. -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL