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From: Monty Scroggins <Monty dot Scroggins at wcom dot com>
Subject: Re: splitting a field by an unrecognizable null field
Date: Sep 25 2000 5:10AM

Maybe you can split on \W (anything but a word character)..

Just a thought

Monty

----- Original Message -----
From: "Klein, Shoshana R" 
To: "SybPerl Discussion List" 
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 8:55 PM
Subject: splitting a field by an unrecognizable null field


> Hi,
> I'm trying to split a name field into first and last name, the input data
> has the name as one field that appears to have a space in between the
first
> and last name.
>
> I tried splitting on \t \s \b \w / / and it doesn't work.
> any ideas how I can separate this field without knowing what kind of
> character actually is there.
> I'm not quite sure where the data came from, it could have been from a
> massaged excel,word,
> notepad etc file.
>
>      $first, $last = split(/\b/, $name);
>       print "b   first=$first last= $last name= $name \n";
>      $first, $last = split(/\w/, $name);
>       print "w   first=$first last= $last name= $name \n";
>      $first, $last = split(/\t/, $name);
>       print "tab first=$first last= $last name= $name \n";
>      $first, $last = split(/ /, $name);
>       print "blank  first=$first last= $last name= $name \n";
>      $first, $last = split(/\s/, $name);
>       print "s first=$first last= $last name= $name \n";
>
>      ($first, $last) = split(/![a-z,A-Z]/, $name);
>       print "nots first=$first last= $last name= $name \n";
>
>
> tHE OUTPUT LOOKS LIKE THIS
> b   first= Karen Livings last= 3 name= Rachel Tippetts
> w   first= Karen Livings last= 7 name= Rachel Tippetts
> tab first= Karen Livings last= 1 name= Rachel Tippetts
> blank  first= Karen Livings last= 2 name= Rachel Tippetts
> s first= Karen Livings last= 2 name= Rachel Tippetts
> nots first=Rachel Tippetts last=  name= Rachel Tippetts
>