Simple split regex

ReggieRWalker

It must be too late in the day...

I have an extended attribute:

TeamSite/Metadata/Security_Group

that I want to gather the value of. A piece of function that I'm using to separate the key/value pairs:

 foreach $ea (@metadata)
 {
      chomp($ea);
      if (($ea !~ /ERROR/i)||($ea !~ /NextEA/i))
     {
          my ($key, $value) = split(/=/, $ea);
          print "Existing Metadata Found: $fullVPath\n";
          print OUT "$fullVPath||$key||$value\n";
      }
 }

works fine in all other cases except those values with have a format like:

{BUSINESS_GROUP=blah}

so if the key/value pair is: TeamSite/Metadata/Security_Group={BUSINESS_GROUP=blah}

I only get {BUSINESS_GROUP as a return value. Is there a way that I can limit the split regex to only take in regard the initial "=?"

TIA

ReggieRWalker

For those that are interested (amazing what you find when you RTFM!!)

The split function has an optional limit field:

split(/PATTERN/, STRING, LIMIT);

so I set my split to:

my ($key, $value) = split(/=/, $ea, 1);

and it worked.