perlquestion Anonymous Monk Hi, i am reading a text file. and my code looks like below: <c> open FH, "$INPUT_DIR/$input_file" or die "Couldn't Open File: $!"; while ( <FH> ) { chomp; my ($s, $a, $c, $r) = (split / [, \t]/, $_); </c> the split fucntion process the comma and tab delimited now. Input file: <c> process: clientserver,00001,AIT,SOURCE clientserver 00001 AIT SOURCE error: clientserve|00001|AIT|SOURCE </c> split should die if it finds the pipe and it should process if it finds comma or tab delimited. 11