In reading in a file of space separated columns of numbers and stuffing them into an array, I used: while( my $line = <$FH> ) { my @arr = split /\s+/, $line; push @primes_array, @arr; }
but kept getting empty array entries until I switched to: while( <$FH> ) { my @arr = split; push @primes_array, @arr; } perldoc -f split says: If EXPR is omitted, splits the $_ string. If PATTERN is also omitted, splits on whitespace (after skipping any leading whitespace). My question is what RE do I need to pass to split to get the same return from split /$RE/, $line; as I get from the split against $_. Thanks, Mike -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/