On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 09:47:43AM -0600, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 01:15:47PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 07:46:21AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > > Assuming that there's no need to handle fields with embedded spaces,
> > > perl's split() function will DTRT.
> >
> > No, it does not because there are fields that can be empty.
>
> This seems to work fine for me:
>
> $ perl -e 'my @x = split(/,/, "a,b,,c"); print "1:$x[0] 2:$x[1] 3:$x[2]
> 4:$x[3]\n";'
> 1:a 2:b 3: 4:c
Doesn't work for something like:
176 -- 432456 500000 500000 3400 25000 25000
177 ++ 105464 1 1 none 2173 1 1 none
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