Re: split question

[allolex]

The pattern is a regular expression pattern. ;)

split /\|/, $line;

have a look at perldoc -f split (split) and perlre.

Update Sat Jan 31 05:05:13 2004: Added slashes. I saw that particular syntax on comp.lang.perl.misc, and just assumed that it would work (mea maxima culpa).

[davido]

split \|, $line;

Huh? Try:  split /\|/, $line;

You forgot your quote-like regexp characters.

Or to answer the OP's question:

my $delimiter = quotemeta( '|' );
my @array = split /$delimiter/, $line;