I have a bunch of text files that follow the format
variable = value <crlf>
I am trying to read each file and insert it into SQL but before I can do
that I need to parse
the values into a hash.
One of the fields has the URL which can contain & and = characters, so after
the first split I seem to miss the rest.
I tried using the LIMIT feature of split which if I am reading it correctly
'limits the amount of times it will split'.
But I am not getting the desired results. See example
TEXT FILE HAS THIS
$method="GET";
$engname="SurfGopher";
$line="http://www.surfgopher.com/cgi-bin/submit.cgi";
$myquery="url=$url&email=$email&i_rank=yes";
When I run the script and print the output I get this
MYQUERY =
value = www.surfgopher.com/cgi-bin/submit.cgi
value = GET
value = SurfGopher
THIS IS THE LINE OF CODE USING SPLIT
if ($_ =~ /^\$myquery/) { (undef, $line{myquery}) = split(/=/, $_, 1) }
THIS IS THE LINE PRINTING THE OUTPUT IN QUESTION
print "MYQUERY = $line{myquery}\n";
I could just do a $line =~ s/\$myquery\=//;
and be done with it, but I want to know why and how to use the LIMIT
argument.
Thanks
zack
