On May 22, Peter Cline said:
>> @parts = split ' ', "this and that";
>> { local $" = ") ("; print "(@parts)"; }
>> # (this) (and) (that)
>
>Will the ") (" assign any amount of space to the list separator?
>This is interesting. I haven't encountered this syntax before.
Using split ' ' is magical. First, it removes leading and trailing
whitespace from the string, and THEN it splits like /\s+/.
@parts = split ' ', " a b c def ";
print scalar @parts; # 4
print join ",", @parts; # a,b,c,def
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