On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Sherwin Daganato
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> $varn [EMAIL PROTECTED]<number>];
>>
>> (method 2)
>>
>> ($var1,$var2,$var3) = split /\s+/,@arr,3;
>
> Passing an array as the second argument to split() and expecting split()
> to return a list is wrong. @arr will be evaluated in scalar context. Thus,
> what will be passed to split() is the length of @arr.
Yes, perldoc -f split has these "function prototypes" for split():
split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT
split /PATTERN/,EXPR
split /PATTERN/
split
EXPR is taken as a scalar, and when not present, the default scalar $_
is assumed to be split.
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