[plug] Perl Question

[Bernard Blackham]

> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:51:17PM +0800, David Buddrige wrote:
> > I have a comma-delimited text file containing records, with one line per
> > record.  The fields are seperated by commas 

> > My question: Is there a simple perl function that will pull out each field
> > value into a variable of some kind (I guess an array would be easiest),
> > where each value is seperatly accessible? 
> 
> Yes there is such a function. At least one.

Perhaps the one you are looking for is split, eg:

($date, $text, $amount, $blah) = split /,/, $string;

You can use any regular expression to split on too! If you have
things like text between the commas,
(eg, '"O'Brian, James",123,345,456), then you may want to look at
the Text::CSV_XS module, designed for parsing CSV files.

HTH,

Bernard.

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