Thursday 5 November 2009

split()

split is another handy function in perl to split lines into list of space seperated words by default.We can use any delimiter to split any part of line.

For example:
while( my $line = <fh> )  

{
        chomp($line);
        $line =~ s/^\s+//;    # trim leading space               
        $line =~ s/\s+$//;    # trim trailing space
        $line =~ s/^\s+$//;   # trim blank lines
        next unless($line);   # if line is undef skip it
        next if ($line =~ /^#/);  #ignore comment lines
        @Iline = split(/[=&]/,$line,3); #printing the first three matching fields of the line      
        print "@Iline \n"; 

}

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