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On Fri Dec 14 05:07:24 2012, davem wrote: > 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. I probably broke that (unintentionally). -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=116086Thread Previous | Thread Next