Regular expressions can be used to break up strings. This is what
split does. The
join function on the other hand
takes a list of strings and combines them together again.
$line="Bart Lisa Maggie Marge Homer";
@simpsons=split(/\s/, $line); #splits $line and uses a piece of whites
+pace as a delimiter.
#@simpsons now contains ("Bart","","Lisa","Maggie","Marge","Homer");
#notice there is an extra space between Bart and Lisa so we get an emp
+ty element in the array there.
#lets try a better delimiter that will eliminate that from happening
@simpsons=split(/\s+/ $line); #now splits $line on 1 or more whitespac
+e characters
#@simpsons now containts ("Bart","Lisa","Maggie","Marge","Homer");
Suppose we had a list of records of the form
Name|Phone Number|Address
We could open a file while which contained those records and do something like this:
open FILE, "data.txt";
while(<FILE>)
chomp;
($name,$phone,$address)=split(/\|/); #splits the default variable $
+_ on |
#notice we have to put \| sinc
+e | is a metacharacter
#that represents or. Otherwise
+ we'd be matching
#empty string or empty string
#then we place the results in
+variables instead of a list
#the parentheses around the va
+riable names need
#to be there for this to work
+properly
print "Name: $name\n"; #Now we print out the informat
+ion in a more readable form
print "Phone Number: $phone\n";
print "Address: $address\n\n";
}
close FILE;
The function
join can be used to reconstruct split up values into one string again.
The syntax for calling this function is
join($glue, @array) or
join($glue,$var1,$var2....) The glue is simply
the string that goes between two strings to hold them together.
Here are a few examples:
$string=join(" ",@simpsons);
#string now equals "Bart Lisa Maggie Marge Homer";
$name="Bob";
$phone="555-5555";
$address="42 Tulip Lane, Holland MI, 49423";
$string=join("|",$name,$phone,$address);
#$string is now equal to "Bob|555-5555|42 Tulip Lane, Holland MI, 4942
+3"
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