So if you wanted to split on just one space, would split / /,$variable be treated as magical as well?
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:50 AM To: David Gray Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Creating variables of a string On Apr 2, David Gray said: >> Michael Stearman wrote: >> >> my ($target, $count, $num) = split ' ', $word; > >I think that needs to be: > >my ($target,$count,$num) = split /\s+/, $word; > >to handle multiple spaces between the values. No. As the split() documentation states, split(' ') is magical. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
