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Re: Parsing Names in a Text File

by Masem (Monsignor)
on Jun 15, 2001 at 18:35 UTC ( [id://88805]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Parsing Names in a Text File

It's probably easily to use split since your file is nicely set up for that; Regex's aren't always the right cure for every problem. 
my @names;
while (<FILE>) {
  my ( $a, $name, @rest ) = split /\|/;
  push @names, $name;
}

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