Re: RFC 361 (v1) Simplifying split()

[Chaim Frenkel]

>>>>> "TC" == Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

TC> The reason that this was done this way was for the common
TC> case of someone forgetting to chop an incoming line and
TC> then splitting on whitespace.

TC>     while (<>) {
TC>     @F = split;
TC>     ...
TC>     } 

Interesting. I thought it was to make it more natural.

When splitting on whitespace, one is interested in the non-space tokens.
Effectively the leading and trailing whitespace isn't there.

<chaim>
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