Hi,

I have a quick string question. I have passed a string to my program in the form
$countries="England,Wales"
Is there a speedy way of quoting each value individually to produce:
$myhash{countries}=" 'England','Wales' ";

Thx
Gordon

Possibly..

I assume you want to preserve the single quotes, then

Code:

myhash{countries}=join(',',map { $_= qq[\'$_\']; } split(',',$countries));

Seems to work.

A bit pedestrian though, there has to be a better way. I'll have a think....

Ok, I had a think..

Code:

$countries=~s/\b/'/g; $myhash{countries}=$countries;

Works too, but does alter $countries first.

nb. This substitutes all word boundaries for single quotes.

hth

B

Thx Custard

The second solution suits my needs well.

Cheers
Gordon

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