split delimiters

[Anonymous Monk]

Although I have worked on Perl for a few months, I am quite the major rookie. I am working on a script where I need to split lines of a report into fields and I am having problems using ( and [ as delimiters. There is really no other way to split this and I have no clue what to do..can you help me please!!!!! My deadline is approaching?!??!??!?!?!

[myocom]

This would be infinitely easier if you were to post your script (make sure to enclose it in <code> tags!), some sample data, the expected output, and what you're getting now.

[wardk]

there is going to be a number of ways to slay this dragon.

Please provide a couple of data records as an example of the actual data, and if you have some, post the code that currently isn't making it happen for you...

[busunsl]

Since ( and [ are special characters in regular expressions, you have to escape them:

split /\(/, 'some(odd(string';
split /\[/, 'next[odd[string';

[Daddio]

Or, just in case both of these delimiters should be used for one split...

split /[\[\(]/, 'some(next[really(really(odd[string';

[busunsl]

Well, in that case you don't have to escape them, because they are in sqare brackets:

split /[([]/, 'some(wierd[string';