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Re^4: Split criteria
by Fletch (Bishop) on Nov 05, 2008 at 13:36 UTC

    When trying to come up with a really unlikely temporary separator it's better to use something really unlikely to occur in the real data. Since perl can cope with strings with embedded nulls just fine s/!,!/!\0!/g would be a more robust option.

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