Perl Question - Split using |

From: Celine John <celine_mj_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 06:43:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004903A4.20020705064325@fatcity.com>

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";

prints
a
instead of
abc.

Does somebody have a solution to this.
Thanks much.

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