On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 08:39:16AM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Jul 13, David Storrs said:
>
> >Given this code:
> >
> > my $TOKEN_DELIMS = qr/[^\w\-'\$]/;
> > my $text = # string containing the contents of an mbox file
> >
> > my @tokens = split /$TOKEN_DELIMS/o, $text;
> >
> >I end up with a large number of null strings ('') in @tokens. After
> >RTFMing on split, I assume this is because I am matching at the
> >beginning/end of the string. I can't quite grok how to eliminate
> >these, however.
>
> Well, your split pattern is only matching ONE token delimiter at a time.
> That means on a string like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", you're going to get back the
> elements "this", "", "", "that", because there's an empty string in
> between the ! and @, as well as between the @ and #. I think you want to
> change your regex to /$TOKEN_DELIMS+/o instead.
Aha! Great, thank you.
--Dks
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