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From:
demerphq
Date:
October 23, 2014 11:43
Subject:
Context broken in split?
Message ID:
CANgJU+VFQHdQ5T007DU7qMCpOuTeeBw3nWd+_e6OxAdGvChVng@mail.gmail.com
my $items= () = split /,/, $string;

What should this do? Count the number of items separated by string? Or
return 1?

Why should it behave differently from this:

my $items= () = split /,/, "foo,bar,baz", -1;

Is this a bug?

Yves



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