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Re: optimizing /\s*,\s*/
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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
September 8, 2003 11:13
Subject:
Re: optimizing /\s*,\s*/
Message ID:
20030908201116.AD7D.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl
On Mon 08 Sep 2003 20:06, Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>
> > On Mon 08 Sep 2003 19:36, "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <japhy@perlmonk.org> wrote:
> > > A lot of times, when people want to split a string into comma-separated
> > > fields, they use something like
> > >
> > > @fields = split /\s*,\s*/, $string;
> >
> > Yes, I do a lot of split m/\s*\|\s*/, $_, -1
> > What's naive? It's probably an 'Ahh, sure. Darn I forgot.' but enlighten me.
>
> Probably the issue of commas (or other delimiters) inside quoted strings.
> That's the one that bites most people.
Ahh, OK, that ain't the case. I generate the data myself from a database with
DBI. When I need CSV, I use CSV_XS :) [ a lot ]
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