Re: Split Operation

[JadeNB]

I was going to suggest

my @array = eval '(' . $test . ')';

just for amusement, but it doesn't work. I think that I will probably never understand string eval properly.

[falsedan]

This fails:

my $test = "[a,b],c,'d',[e,[f,g,h,[i,j],k,l],m,n],o,p";
my @array = eval ( $test );

This succeeds:

my $test = "[a,b,],c,'d',[e,[f,g,h,[i,j,],k,l,],m,n,],o,p";
my @array = eval ( $test );

Don't forget no strict 'subs'; or else all those unquoted single characters will be treated as barewords!

[JadeNB]

The only difference that I can see is that the second code has (apparently spurious) commas at the end of every arrayref—is that correct? Why is it necessary?

Of course you're right that what I wrote is far from strict-safe—thanks! Making it so would probably be harder than just giving the kind of solution the OP wanted, though. :-)

[xtype]

use strict;
my $test="[a,b],c,'d',[e,[f,g,h,[i,j],k,l],m,n],o,p";
$test =~ s/([a-zA-Z])/"$1"/g;
my @array = eval ( $test );