Perl Splitting Tutorial

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

It seems that it is important for commands in bots, and this is a bot site. So why don't we have a tutorial on it?

Cer · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:39 pm Post subject:

Maybe because it's a basic Perl function and you can pick it up from most any tutorial.

(@output) = split(/separator/, $variable, number-of-outputs);

i.e. a comma separated list for an address book:
"Cerone,Kirsle,name@domain.com,555 nowhere rd,555-555-5555,some comments that include, commas, inside of them"

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

yeah but how would I handle splitting in a sense of turning an IM with Hello World into two variables. $hello having Hello in it, and $world having world in it. I think you would use splitting for that

darkmonkey · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject:

my $message = 'Hello World';
my ($hello, $word) = split(/ /, $message, 2);

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

What if it was Hello:World is good

how would I put Hello into one variable and world is good into another?
The colon should NOT be in a varialbe

darkmonkey · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:44 pm Post subject:

The thing you want to split it with goes in the first arg:

my ($hello, $secondbit) = split(/:/, $message, 2);

Now, no more help. Read what Cer and I have said, and learn from it.

Cheater · Senior Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 236

I won't need help on this topic anymore. But you can count on me having questions on other topics

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