Timothy Johnson wrote:
The confusion comes from the poor wording of the perldoc."As a special case, specifying a PATTERN of space (' ') will split on white space just as "split" with no arguments does. Thus, "split(' ')" can be used to emulate awk's default behavior, whereas "split(/ /)" will give you as many null initial fields as there are leading spaces. A "split" on "/\s+/" is like a "split(' ')" except that any leading whitespace produces a null first field. A "split" with no arguments really does a "split(' ', $_)" internally." It doesn't make it clear whether it's really talking about whitespace (as in \w) or just spaces. This is why I avoid using "magic" whenever possible.Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue. I meant \s, of course. In this case the problem is not with the wording of the doc, but with the confusing array of options. My same conclusion applies. *sheesh*
just to let everyone know, (I thought I had done this already but with the list reply stuff I messed that up)
The problem is fixed, my split was correct, but my test to see if my split was correct was wrong
I was printing the array in debug mode, but not in a way that would indicate that the values where in separate elements.
I was also printing the "count" of array elements and that apparently is also wrong, I was getting 1 when I should have got >1.
The doc I read said that there is a special variable called #$arrayname that has the count of array elements.
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