Splitting Error

[policy]

I'm using this code to split:

[HIGHLIGHT="Perl"]# Split the lines by *
@code = split(/*/, $my_lines);[/HIGHLIGHT]

but I get this error:

"Quantifier follows nothing in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/* <-- HERE / at c:\projects\line_split.pl line 31"

Any ideas how to fix this or why this error is generated? I can split with:

[HIGHLIGHT="Perl"]# Split the lines by *
@code = split(/'/, $my_lines);[/HIGHLIGHT]

and everything works fine.

[KevinADC]

'*' is a quantifier, it means: zero or more when used in a regular expression, which is what split(//) is. If you want to split on a literal * you have to escape it:

@code = split(/\*/, $my_lines);

or use single-quotes:

@code = split('*', $my_lines);

[policy]

That works! Thanks

I didn't think about it being a quantifier.