Splitting blunder

[helmex]

Hi Monks, I am having problems splitting a string.
The string looks like this

$string=\\Server\user;
or sometimes
$string=\\Server\dir\user;

I tried to use the following statment:
@tmp=split(/\/,$string);
and
@tmp=split(/\\/,$string);
But when I try to print out elements of @tmp I get blank lines.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
%^+^%

[Juerd]

$string=\\Server\user;

Syntax error. Add quotes (And note that \\ will evaluate to a single backslash).

@tmp=split(/\/,$string);

Syntax error. The backslash escapes the delimiter, leaving an undelimited string.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Try posting the code you're working with (but only relevant bits), instead of some broken examples. Learn about using the <code> tag too.

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[swiftone]

1) Are you sure you aren't having issues with escaping characters?

$string ="\\Server\user";  #WRONG!
$string ='\\Server\user'; #right

2) What does @tmp look like? Try Data::Dumper. Is $string being placed in element 0, or what?

[Juerd]

$string ='\\Server\user'; #right

Even with single quotes, backslash can escape delimiters and itself. $string be \Server\user.

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[extremely]

$s = '\\Server\user\dir';
@tmp = split /\\+/, $s;
print join(" -- ", @tmp);

You're going to want to put a double backslash in to match a single, and you might want to add the '+' after it to match multiples inline.

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[perigeeV]

I always run to modules when I have regexp problems:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Basename;

my $fullpath = '\\Server\dir\user';
my $popped;
my @fileparts;

while($fullpath ne "" && ($popped = basename($fullpath)) ) {
    push @fileparts, $popped;
    $fullpath = dirname($fullpath);
}
for(@fileparts) {print "$_\n"}

It does what you want, but without splitting. I don't know if that's acceptable for you.

[helmex]

Thanks for all the leads.
TYPO - I did escape the backslashes, posted wrong sorry
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[perlplexer]

Not sure how you can get blanks for all of them...
The first two elements will always be blank since Server name is always preceded by '\\'...
Here is what you could do to avoid that

# example 1
@tmp = split /\\/, substr($string, 2);
print join(',', @tmp), "\n";

# example 2
$string =~ s/^\\+//;
@tmp = split /\\/, $string;
print join(',', @tmp), "\n";

# example 3
@tmp = split /\\+/, $string;
shift @tmp;
print join(',', @tmp), "\n";


--perlplexer