Re: how to do this in perl (from unix)

[John Riselvato]

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> >> Beginning Perl programmers should note the difference between ' ' and /
> / for split. In most cases, it doesn't matter. However, the split pattern '
> ' is a special case that splits on any whitespace, which includes the space
> character, the tab character, and the newline character. It also changes the
> rules on what split does if there are separator characters at the beginning
> or end of the string and what split does if there are consecutive space
> characters in the string.
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> >> See 'perldoc -f split' and search for 'PATTERN of space'.
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Thank you Jim, This is exactly why I signed up for the perl list. To get
great information like this.