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From:
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
Date:
April 2, 2002 11:50
Subject:
RE: Creating variables of a string
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.21.0204021449520.6722-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net
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.

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