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So if you wanted to split on just one space, would split / /,$variable be
treated as magical as well?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:jeffp@crusoe.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:50 AM
To: David Gray
Cc: beginners@perl.org
Subject: RE: Creating variables of a string
On Apr 2, David Gray said:
>> Michael Stearman wrote:
>>
>> my ($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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