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Angharad:

Remove a backslash. It looks like your split command is trying to split on '\' + any character instead of '.'. (In other words, rather than escaping the period to make it a literal, you're escaping the backslash instead of the period.)

...roboticus

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In reply to Re: My split command isnt working - please advise by roboticus
in thread My split command isnt working - please advise by Angharad

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