clindh@abalon.se (Christer Lindh) (06/06/90)
I want to split up a string using several possible delimiters, and
keep the delimiters in the array. The manual says that
split(/([,-])/, "1-10,20")
gives
(1, '-', 10, ',', 20)
This works just fine, but how can I AVOID splitting on a delimiter escaped
with backslash? Ie a split on "1\-10,20" should give ('1\-10', ',', 20).
Has anyone out there got a smart one/many-liner to use in this case?
(I know how to remove the remaining backslashes, for example with
grep(s/\\(.)/\1/g, @array) )
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*All disclaimers apply* :: ! merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (06/06/90)
In article <1990Jun5.181002.3453@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>, clindh@abalon (Christer Lindh) writes: | I want to split up a string using several possible delimiters, and | keep the delimiters in the array. The manual says that | split(/([,-])/, "1-10,20") | gives | (1, '-', 10, ',', 20) | | This works just fine, but how can I AVOID splitting on a delimiter escaped | with backslash? Ie a split on "1\-10,20" should give ('1\-10', ',', 20). | | Has anyone out there got a smart one/many-liner to use in this case? | | (I know how to remove the remaining backslashes, for example with | grep(s/\\(.)/\1/g, @array) ) Just cheat a bit... $_ = "1\\-10,20"; s/\\-/\377/g; @s = grep(s/\377/-/g || 1, split(/([,-])/)); For \377, just use anything "out of band". (If you have binary data, tough. But, you probably wouldn't be splitting it anyway.) $,=" "; print +("hacker,","Just","Perl","another")[1,3,2,0]; -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/