How to split a pipe separated string in CGI/Perl.

[sharshav]

Hi all,
I am hitting some URL from my perl page, and getting some Values as response which are pipe separated.
Here I have two queries,
1) how to read that response into a local variable.
2) How to split that local variable.

[xmassey]

Hello, not totally sure what you mean... But if you have a string like this...
my $string = "One|Two|Three|Four|Five";
Each element is devided using | character...
We can split the string like this...
my @string_split = split(/\|/, $string);
now you can either use a foreach loop to do something to each element of the array or if you know which one you want...
i.e.
my $one_i_want = @string[2]
### $one_i_want would then have the value Three stored to it.
About reading the response, not totally sure what you mean. Reading from a file? Or sending the data to the script directly?
Chris

[xmassey]

I made a mistake...
my $one_i_want = @string[2]
should have been...
my $one_i_want = @string_split[2]