"R. Joseph Newton" wrote: > > Joel Newkirk wrote: > > > Well, actually they don't, since the 'bare' # will be interpreted as > > starting a comment, while the one in quotes won't... ;^) > > > > The op's assignment was assigning 'split(/' to @temp... > > Did you test.
Did YOU test? > The only problem I see with John's code is that it addumes that > the print statement will print a newline, There is no such assumption, I explicitly told perl to print a newline. > which it doesn't [at least on my > installation of V5.8]. On the main point, he is right. > > Greetings! E:\d_drive\perlStuff\giffy>perl -w How is this supposed to run on the command line without -e ? > @temp = split(/#/, "abc#def#ghi#jkl"); > print "$_\n" for @temp; > ^Z > abc > def > ghi > jkl Here is a little quiz for you beginners out there. split() treats its first argument as a regular expression. There are TWO exceptions where the first argument does not behave the same as a normal regular expression. What are they? John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
