On 2011-04-08 14:34, Shawn H Corey wrote:

my @words = split /\s+/, $string;

See perldoc -f split, about why you might want to write that as

  my @words = split ' ', $string;



To get it to not capture any matches, use the non-capture parentheses:

@num = split /(?:(?:a|b)+)/, $x;

Does that do anything different from

  @num = split /(?:a|b)+/, $x;

?

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Ruud

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