Command line option for split

[xlue897]

Hi,

Can we specify the [limit] option for split in command line? For perl
code, we can do things like

@F=split /pattern/, expr, limit;

in command line, we can express pattern like
perl -F"/pattern/" -anle '...'

but how can we specify the limit in command line?


Thanks,

Steven

 

[Michele Dondi]

Can we specify the [limit] option for split in command line? For perl
code, we can do things like

No, I don't really think so.


Michele

 

[John W. Krahn]

Can we specify the [limit] option for split in command line?
No.

For perl code, we can do things like

@F=split /pattern/, expr, limit;

That is what you are going to have to do.



John

 

[xlue897]

Can we specify the [limit] option for split in command line? For perl
code, we can do things like

No, I don't really think so.

Michele

If there are fields with trailing empty fields, Perl cannot get the
correct number of fields using command line options. So Perl is not
convenient and accurate in getting fields numbers with command line
options. And we should avoid using command line options to try to get
fields number.

 

[Michele Dondi]

If there are fields with trailing empty fields, Perl cannot get the
correct number of fields using command line options. So Perl is not
convenient and accurate in getting fields numbers with command line
options. And we should avoid using command line options to try to get
fields number.

It seems sensible and reasonable: after all command line options are
there for small tasks and not to solve all the problems that one may
face in Perl. In fact they would be better adopted for relatively
small scripts. In longer ones, adding a pair of lines for an explicit
loop or a split() makes things easier to follow and doesn't hurt much.


Michele