How to cut fields with pipe separator in a file

[jayakumarrt]

Dear friends,


Inside the perl script i will opening the file which is having three columns with pipe separated.

a|1|abc
b|2|bcd
c|3|one

Now i want to read the first record (a|1|abc), split the record and assign the each column values to some variable.
Can anybody help me in this ?

Thanks in advance
Jayakumar

[prn]

Hi jayakumarrt,

See the documentation on the split function for how to do this.

Best Regards,
Paul

[miller]

Greetings jayakumarrt,

As Paul said, simply use the split function. Just note that the pipe | is a regex meta character and therefore must be escaped to use properly.

[CODE=perl]
my $s = 'a|1|abc';
my @a = split '\|', $s;
print join ',', @a; # Outputs a,1,abc
[/CODE]
- Miller

[jayakumarrt]

Thanks Miller and Paul