Split backslash gives "unbalanced quotes"

[tmontney]

Trying to split a \ says unbalanced quotes. I am using the split command.

eval temp=split(mystring, "\")

[somesoni2 · Accepted solution]

In SPL, a backslash is an escape character, so you'd have to escape it to use it's literal value.

eval temp=split(mystring,"\\")

[tmontney]

I swear I tried that, but I did it again and it worked.

[rlacher]

The backslash (\) character is an escape characters -- it's trying to escape the last quote in your split command. You need to use another backslash to escape the original backslash so that it is interpreted as a literal backslash character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character

Try

eval temp=split(mystring, "\\")