On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Why is it that the first two splits do not produce any elements? > > #!/usr/local/bin/perl > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $var = 100421; > my @elems1 = split(/\d/,$var); > my @elems2 = split(/./,$var); > my @elems3 = split(//,$var); > The first two patterns match every character. When everything is a separator, there's nothing left as data. -- Robert Wohlfarth
