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From: srs@ticnj.UUCP (Scott Strool)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: formatting DB records
Keywords: text processing records db split
Message-ID: <906@ticnj.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 91 20:54:58 GMT
References: <905@ticnj.UUCP>
Organization: IEX Corporation Red Bank, NJ
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After further experimentation I have found that the split function is
appropriate. The one problem that I have come across is the pattern
character. I was using the pipe char |. split seemed to ignore this,
actually it returned just one character of the field i.e if the field
was SCORE it returned SC. When I changed the delimeter in my file to a 
colon, the script worked as ecpected. 

What is wrong with the | character, does it have to be escaped?

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