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You could use the following: 
 my $readline = "perl::monk";
 my ( $first, $second );

 # this will get the first item...
 ( $first, undef ) = split /::/, $readline, 2;

 # or the second one...
 ( undef, $second ) = split /::/, $readline, 2;

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Untested code, but hope it helps,

Update: removed the type in the second rule... I need more coffee...

-- JaWi

"A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs."

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Re: Re: Removing delimiters
by DaveH (Monk) on Feb 04, 2003 at 08:28 UTC

    Hi.

    Why do two splits, when one would do?

    my ($first, $second) = split /::/, $readline, 3;

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    or more simply 
    my (@fields) = split /::/, $readline;

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    Cheers,

    -- Dave :-)

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      Agreed, but the original post asked for either the first or the second; so I assumed that was all he wanted... In fact, if you don't want to use the list assignment you could do it also like this: 
       my $first = ( split /::/, $readline, 2 )[ 0 ];

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      Many, many ways of doing the same... And how I love it ;-)

      -- JaWi

      "A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs."

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