[OZAPRS] APRS PERL SPLIT Help needed

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:25:28PM +1000, Andrew Rich wrote:
> I am feeling very dumb today I need some help with this PERL code.
> 
> STRING = CALLSIGN>DEST,DIGI,DIGI,DIGI:PAYLOAD
> 
> I am trying to get:  CALLSIGN, DEST, (digis), PAYLOAD
> 
> Code:-
> 
> @callsign = split />/;
> @payload = split/:/;
> @dest = split /[>,]/;
> @digis = < this is the bit i am having probs with >

Split is the wrong function to use for this sort of function - use
regular expressions to grab the text before the >, text between the >
and first comma (if any), text between the first command the the :, then
text after the colon. Simple.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>
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