On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:47:59PM -0400, Sean O'Leary wrote:
> split (".", $ARGV[0])
>
> becomes
>
> split (/./, $ARGV[0], 5)
>
> I don't know what the 5 is doing there ( I think it should be a 4, because
> you are assigning the result of the split to 4 a list of variables, but the
> compiler knows about many things that I don't.)
Such as, for example, if the limit was 4, the fourth variable would
contain the remainder of the string, rather than the fourth part of the
split.
perldoc -f split (again)
:-)
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