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That always confused me, by default split splits by /\s+/ so why confuse us
more by making " " and ' ' magical.
Nikola Janceski
Oh Joy! My first material possession! I can hardly wait to try it out!
-- Stimpy (Ren and Stimpy)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:jeffp@crusoe.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:34 PM
> To: Timothy Johnson
> Cc: David Gray; beginners@perl.org
> Subject: RE: Creating variables of a string
>
>
> On Apr 2, Timothy Johnson said:
>
> >So if you wanted to split on just one space, would split /
> /,$variable be
> >treated as magical as well?
>
> No. As the split() documentation ALSO states, only split(' ') and
> split(" ") are treated magically. split(/ /) splits on a single
> space; the others split as if it was /\s+/, but they discard leading
> spaces. See the documentation for FULL details, so that we
> don't need to
> reproduce bits and pieces of the docs here.
>
> --
> Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@pobox.com
> http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/
> RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/
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** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
<stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
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