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On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:31:18PM -0500, Eric Brine wrote:
> 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.
I can confirm that it broke between 5.17.4 and 5.17.5:
$ perl5174 -e 'print "[$_]\n" for split "\x20", " a b c " '
[a]
[b]
[c]
$ perl5175 -e 'print "[$_]\n" for split "\x20", " a b c " '
[]
[a]
[b]
[]
[c]
$
and that the old behaviour worked back until at least 5_004_05.
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