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Old 02-26-2013
Perl help

whats wrong with the code ?
i am getting the result as
Code:
 
 
Becky Alcorn
25
female
Melbourne
i
|
a
m
|
g
r
e
a
t
|
p
e
r
s
o
n

instead of

Code:
 
Becky Alcorn
25
female
Melbourne
i
am
great
person

why ?

the code is as per below

Code:
 
 
  #!/usr/bin/perl
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  my $data = 'Becky Alcorn,25,female,Melbourne' ;
my $data1 = 'i|am|great|person';

  my @values = split(',', $data);
  foreach my $val (@values) {
    print "$val\n";
  }

my @words = split ('|', $data1);
foreach my $val1 (@words) {
print "$val1\n";
}
  exit 0;

# 2  
Old 02-26-2013
Code:
my @words = split ('\|', $data1);

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Old 02-26-2013
What he said, split doesn't split the string on a literal character, but rather on a regular expression and | has a special meaning in a regex, it's an alternation, which allows the pattern to match anything on either side of it, as there is nothing on either side of it in your example the string is split at every character boundary.

Pre-pending a back-slash escapes the character and makes it represent its literal self in the regex.
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