Re: Perl Question - Split using |

Don't escape if it's in a variable.

Ask yourself why you have to escape it when used literally.

Jared

On Friday 05 July 2002 07:43, Celine John wrote:
> 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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