Hello

I am totally new to perl and i was trying to split a string expression at specific characters with the following command:

@table=split(/./, "this.is.a.test");

as a result i get an array with 1 entry, which contains the whole string. So somehow the line wasnt splitted.

Hows that?

I didnt define any use stuff at the beginning of my perl script, did I left out something? I also didnt declare @table to be an array, the first init it in that line above.

I am totally confised, according to the docs I found on the net, the line above should give me what I want...

Thanks

raven

Your problem is the regexp. '.' means match any character.

To get it to work, you need to escape '.'.

Try this instead:

@table=split(/\./, "this.is.a.test");