[ale] Simple Perl Question

[Tommie M. Jones]

On this line:
@line = $lines[$x];

change to:
@line = split('|', $lines[$x]);

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On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Bob Kruger wrote:

> I haven't written anything in Perl for about a year, and am hitting a
> brick wall on a simple one.  Hopefully, someone in the group has a quick
> answer.
>
> I am reading lines of data from a file and doing an extract to go into a
> SQL database.  Fields are delimited by "|".  There are 12 fields per
> line.  I would like to read each line into an array, and then export
> four of the fields.  So, and extract could be:
>
>
> ...
> $ifile = "./52.txt";
> open(INFO, $ifile);
> @lines = <INFO>;
> close <INFO>;
> for ($x=0; $x <= $#lines; $x++) {
>    #don't want to use the first line;
>    if ($x == 0) (
>    } else {
>    @line = $lines[$x];
>     print $line[0] $line[4] $line[6] $line[9] \n;
>  }
> };
> ......
>
> I am stumbling on the delimiter part.  Bottom line is that I have
> forgotten how to designate a delimiter for input into an array, and a
> host of other stuff.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Regards - Bob Kruger
>
>
>
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