On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:38:21AM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 23:26:44 -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>
> > @foo = split;
> > # BECOMES
> > @foo = split; pop @foo until $foo[-1];
>
> That doesn't fly. What if that last field is "0"?
>
>
> > @foo = split '
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 23:26:44 -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> @foo = split;
> # BECOMES
> @foo = split; pop @foo until $foo[-1];
That doesn't fly. What if that last field is "0"?
> @foo = split ' ';
> # BECOMES
> @foo = split /\s+/; shift @foo;
What if th
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:59:31AM -0600, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> The current behavior makes trailing empty fields non-existent, and that's a
> bizarre and nonintuitive thing to have be a default; if your code relies on
> them being removed, then remove them explicitly, without expecting split to
>
> "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 t
>Sean M. Burke wrote:
>>
>> The current behavior makes trailing empty fields non-existent, and that's a
>> bizarre and nonintuitive thing to have be a default;
>Only to some people; and besides, it's well documented.
Well, Sean is right in that it is very bizarre to many people.
I know that whe
Sean M. Burke wrote:
>
> The current behavior makes trailing empty fields non-existent, and that's a
> bizarre and nonintuitive thing to have be a default;
Only to some people; and besides, it's well documented.
> if your code relies on
> them being removed, then remove them explicitly, withou
The reason that this was done this way was for the common
case of someone forgetting to chop an incoming line and
then splitting on whitespace.
while (<>) {
@F = split;
...
}
At 12:37 AM 2000-10-06 -0400, you wrote:
>> "PRL" == Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>PRL> =item 2. Empty trailing fields are currently suppressed (although a
>PRL> -1 as the third argument disables this). I suggest that empty trailing
>PRL> fields be retained by default.
>
> "PRL" == Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PRL> =item 2. Empty trailing fields are currently suppressed (although a
PRL> -1 as the third argument disables this). I suggest that empty trailing
PRL> fields be retained by default.
Extremely useful, I rely on this. It makes non-
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 11:18:58 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> my @a = split /:/, "", -1;
Oops. that should be
my @a = split /:/, $_, -1;
--
Bart.
On 1 Oct 2000 06:40:08 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>Perl 5 split does five things that I think are just annoying, and
>which I suggest be removed:
I've got one more problem.
for my $i (0 .. 4) {
$_ = ':' x $i;
my @a = split /:/, "", -1;
my $coun
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
=head1 TITLE
Simplifying split()
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Sean M. Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 361
Version: 1
Status: Developing
=head1 ABSTRACT
Per
12 matches
Mail list logo
