tcheungcm has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Is there a length limit to split a line into mutliple variables?
I tried to split a string into a multiple variables where they are using commas delimiter to separate. It has 36 variables per line.
e.g. 123;abc;456;def;123;;123...
My code is
while (readline $fhin) { my ($1, $2, $3,....$36) = split(/;/); printf $fhout, $s,\n", $1; }
When I looked at the output files, it gave werid output where it mixed up with the different variable and print it out
123,
abc,
123,
Is there a limit of length that split function can handle, otherwise, it will truncate the line into next line. is there a way how to resolve it?
The perl version is 5.8.8
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