Why do these two commands not produce the same output?
$ perl -le 'print join("--", split(/: /, "a: b"))'
a--b
$ echo 'a: b' | perl -F'/: /' -lane 'print join("--", @F)'
a: b
From reading 'perldoc perlrun' the -F option should behave just like
the pattern to split. What am I missing?
Regards,
- Robert
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