On Apr 2, David Gray said: >> Michael Stearman wrote: >> >> my ($target, $count, $num) = split ' ', $word; > >I think that needs to be: > >my ($target,$count,$num) = split /\s+/, $word; > >to handle multiple spaces between the values. No. As the split() documentation states, split(' ') is magical. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ]Thread Previous | Thread Next