On Tue May 31 14:14:16 2016, sprout wrote: > 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//.... If you do change the docs, please don’t make it imply that split "foo" can take modifiers. split per se does not actually take any, but rather the m// that serves as its first argument. (In fact, the idea of split taking modifiers is not a way I have ever looked at it, even before I knew perl internals.) -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128302Thread Previous | Thread Next