[Israel.pm] Regex question: alternation between a delimiter and EOL

[Gabor Szabo]

I might be still sleeping but wouldn't

split /;/, $line;

return you all the key=value strings you wanted?

if you wanted a hash of the pairs you would do

%h = split /[;=]/, $line;

Gabor

On 1/24/07, Yossi Itzkovich <Yossi.Itzkovich at ecitele.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a line like:
> key=value;key=value;key=value
>
> Each fields ends with ";" except the last one in each line.  value can
> not contain ";"
> How can I catch the pair of key=value  ?
> I can't do something like:
> /key=(.+?)(;|$)/
> although I'd like too...
>
> So how can I do it ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Yossi
>
>
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