[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Search] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] text::parsewords



Answering my own question:

The double quotes cause the backslashes to be interpolated, resulting 
in weirdness.  Solution: quotewords('[^A-Z ...

.eric.


>Hello:
>
>My reading of the pod for Text::ParseWords indicates to me that the 
>following string:
>
>my $string = "one,two", when put through
>
>my @parsedWords = quotewords("[^A-Za-z\'\-0-9]",'',$string);
>
>will produce an array of length two called parsedWords where
>
>$parsedWords[0] = "one" and $parsedWords[1] = "two".  What I seem to 
>be getting instead is $parsedWords[0] = "one,two".
>
>Anybody have any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Eric
>
>==== Want to unsubscribe from this list?
>==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-anyperl-request@macperl.org


==== Want to unsubscribe from this list?
==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-anyperl-request@macperl.org