split/Perl question

[der.hans]

Am 11. Nov, 2002 schw=E4tzte Mike Starke so:

> I have a colon delimited text file that I need parse thru and grab each v=
alue.
> My problem is that some values actually contain a colon. Using the code b=
elow
> is not quite enough to extract the values:
>
> while (<>) {
>   @array =3D split(":", "$_");
>   }
>
> I seem to recall this same problem before but can not remember
> what I did to get around this. Can anyone point me in the right
> direction?

Are there any rules as to what can or cannot appear on either side of the
colons?

Are the colons in the data fields escaped?

If they aren't escaped, you need to find a rule you can use to differentiat=
e
data colons from separator colons.

ciao,

der.hans
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