Hi,
What's the perl sign for a tab?
We have a database that is a flat file text database seperated by a tab instead of say a :: .
So to tell the script that the delimiter is a tab, what is that bit of coding.

What we have now, is this:

@FIELD=split(/\::/,$data);
But need to change the :: to the correct thing for a tab.

Thanks if'n you can help.



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Regards,
Visionary

A tab is \t. You'll have to escape the backslash with another one though, so your regex should read:

@FIELD=split(/\\t/,$data);

I'm no pro, but I reckon that's right...

adam

Close, you don't want to escape it. It should just be:

@FIELDS = split /\t/, $data;

By escaping it, you are actually splitting on a backslash followed by a t.

Cheers,

Alex