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How do I make the following line not ignore zero-length strings?? @otherchoices = split(/\|/, $choices); I have a $choices= '|ASDF|ERTY|SDFGH' and I need: "", "ASDF", "ERTY" and "SDFGH" The Python split does what I want, but that isn't an option, unless you know if perl can call python. How would I do that? Putting a space isn't an option either, it needs to be a zero-length string. Where can I go to find information? Thank you for any assistance you can offer.

Posted 12/13/2000

shane

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Mayeb I didnt understand your question completely, but it looks like you need the tr function, not the split. Try: $choices =~ tr/\|/,/s; I am not sure if you will need to escape the comma though. Hope it helps

Posted 1/5/2001

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