On Mon, 6 May 2002 08:39:37 +1000 "Michael Blackmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .... > my ($col1,$col2,.....) = split(/,/); > $col1 = undef unless($col1); > .... > > I realise that this is not strictly a DBI problem, really 'split' > should return undef's, shouldn't it? Anyway I wondered if anybody
No - split returned what you asked for - an empty string. See perldoc -f split. Waldemar
