Aaah.  I am creating an OO Perl Module that I will instantiate and the
method (sub) which will have the split function could have $foo change
--  kind of the purpose... I read that too about $foo not changing but
it didn't register, Thanks.  

I am building a generic Ini file loader (to a hash which I return) and I
wanted to make it flexible to work with a delimiter passed by the method
caller.  I guess I have to limit the choice.  This is not a problem for
my use now but I was thinking about reuse in the future.


-----Original Message-----
From: $Bill Luebkert [mailto:dbecoll@[...].net] 
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:11 AM
To: Bharucha, Nikhil
Cc: pdk@[...].com
Subject: Re: Split Function With Expression

Bharucha, Nikhil wrote:

>  Hi,
>  
>   
>  
>  I finally have a need NOT to hardcode a pattern in a split function. 
>  However, it doesn't seem to be working:
>  
>   
>  
>  From CPAN "The pattern |/PATTERN/| may be replaced with an expression
to
>  specify patterns that vary at runtime. (To do runtime compilation only
>  once, use |/$variable/o|.)"
>  
>  Therefore this should work (right?):

I don't know - did it ?  Don't use /o unless you're sure $foo won't
change.

>  split (/$foo/o, $bar)

Don't ask questions without trying them first - then if it fails provide
the smallest test snippet you can that duplicates the error for you.

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