Re: language bindings (fs-independent quotas)

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 04:51:51PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 09:47:43AM -0600, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 01:15:47PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 07:46:21AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > > > Assuming that there's no need to handle fields with embedded spaces,
> > > > perl's split() function will DTRT.
> > > 
> > > No, it does not because there are fields that can be empty.
> > 
> > This seems to work fine for me:
> > 
> > $ perl -e 'my @x = split(/,/, "a,b,,c"); print "1:$x[0] 2:$x[1] 3:$x[2] 
> > 4:$x[3]\n";'
> > 1:a 2:b 3: 4:c
> 
> Doesn't work for something like:
> 176       --  432456  500000  500000             3400   25000   25000       
> 177       ++  105464       1       1   none      2173       1       1   none

I could have sworn we were talking about delimited fields, not fixed width 
fields, but now I can't find where that was mentioned.  I guess I must have
been imagining things. :)
Obviously, for fixed width fields using split() isn't appropriate.

eric