On Feb 21, Deen Hameed said: ># split works on whitespace by default >@somearray = split $string;
Err, that splits $_ on the contents of $string. Yes, split() uses whitespace by default, but that default is the FIRST argument. What I'm saying is that split; is equivalent to split ' '; which is equivalent to split ' ', $_; You can only leave out the pattern (the first arg) if you are also leaving out the string (the second arg). Also, as documented, there is a difference between split ' ' and split /\s+/ -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
