That always confused me, by default split splits by /\s+/ so why confuse us more by making " " and ' ' magical.
Nikola Janceski Oh Joy! My first material possession! I can hardly wait to try it out! -- Stimpy (Ren and Stimpy) > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:34 PM > To: Timothy Johnson > Cc: David Gray; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Creating variables of a string > > > On Apr 2, Timothy Johnson said: > > >So if you wanted to split on just one space, would split / > /,$variable be > >treated as magical as well? > > No. As the split() documentation ALSO states, only split(' ') and > split(" ") are treated magically. split(/ /) splits on a single > space; the others split as if it was /\s+/, but they discard leading > spaces. See the documentation for FULL details, so that we > don't need to > reproduce bits and pieces of the docs here. > > -- > 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] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit Systems Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
