-----Original Message-----
From: Chas. Owens [mailto:chas.ow...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:52 PM
To: sanket vaidya
Cc: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: Question about split
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:45, sanket vaidya <sanket.vai...@patni.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Kindly look at the code below:
>
> use warnings;
> use strict;
>
> $_ = 'Welcome to openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64) - Kernel \r (\l).';
>
> my @numbers = split /\D+/;
snip
> Why the first element of @numbers is 'blank'? Kindly explain with example.
snip
> For the same reason ",1,2,3" when split with /,/ produces ("", 1, 2,
> 3). The regex you pass to split is the field separator. The fact
> that it finds a field separator before it finds a field data means the
> first field is empty. You may find that what you want is a normal
> regex like
>my @numbers = /(\d+)/g;
Got it. Thanks Chas
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