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Re: [perl #116086] split "\x20" doesn't work as documented

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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
February 24, 2013 20:39
Subject:
Re: [perl #116086] split "\x20" doesn't work as documented
Message ID:
14915.1361738370@chthon
Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote
   on Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:32:25 MST: 

>On 02/24/2013 08:58 AM, demerphq wrote:
>> IOW i believe that anything that resolves to a string eq to " " should
>> get the special behavior. Anything that is qr// or // quoted should
>> not. Regardless as to whether it is compile time.

> That sounds reasonable to me

I confess that that is how I'd always thought that it *did* work -- until 
I started testing it.

--tom
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