On Tue May 31 13:59:22 2016, smylers@stripey.com wrote: > Abigail writes: > > > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:06:57AM -0700, Smylers wrote: > > > > > Are all the qr/PATTERN/ flags also valid on split? > > > > I think they are, but some warn. For instance: > > > > $ perl -wE 'our @a = split /f/g, "foo"' > > Use of /g modifier is meaningless in split at -e line 1. > > /g is an m// modifier. perlop documents that m// takes all of the qr// > modifiers plus /g and /c. > > > But I haven't checked all of them. > > I was hoping that somebody might already know, but if not I'll go > through them. It does accept all the modifiers that m// accepts, because there is actually an m// op there at compile time initially, before ck_split makes its exotic changes to the op tree. After all, you can write split m//.... -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128302Thread Previous