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From: srs@ticnj.UUCP (Scott Strool)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: formatting DB records
Keywords: text processing records db split
Message-ID: <905@ticnj.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 91 19:58:02 GMT
Organization: IEX Corporation Red Bank, NJ
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I hope that someone can point me in the correct direction.

I have a file that is output from a database. The fields are '|' separted.

I want to write a script that will read the file and print the records.
I would like to break the line into fields, each field is the text between
the pipe characters. I then want to sort on the key fields and then print
the records without the pipe chars.

What Perl function/commands would I need to use.
I looked at split but could not get that to split my line of text into
the separate named fields. Here is my split line:

	($a,$b,$c) = split(/|/);
	print $a, $b, $c;

	... prints nothing.




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