On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:37 PM, James E Keenan via RT < perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > Nonetheless, these results appear to fail to match the documentation in > a *different* way from yours, viz., they fail the specification that > "any leading whitespace in EXPR is removed before splitting occurs." > That only applies when you pass a *string* consisting of a space. You are passing a regex. The document is quite clear about this.Thread Previous | Thread Next