Regular expression to split on .

[PC]

Example:

my $string = abc\def.ghi\jkl

split( ".", $string) returns an empty list.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

 

[Jürgen Exner]

Example:
my $string = abc\def.ghi\jkl
split( ".", $string) returns an empty list.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Well, I would guess yes because apparently you are not happy with the
result.
However there is no way of saying what you are doing wrong because you
didn't tell us what you expect this code to do in the first place.

jue

 

[PC]

Well, I would guess yes because apparently you are not happy with the
result.
However there is no way of saying what you are doing wrong because you
didn't tell us what you expect this code to do in the first place.

jue

The correct answer was split(/\./, $string)

Thanks.

 

[Alex I. Varyanick]

Example:

my $string = abc\def.ghi\jkl

split( ".", $string) returns an empty list.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

try this
perl -le '$a="qwe.rew.sa.ds"; @b=split /\./,$a; print "@b";'