> Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggested:
>> This will split up the string based on the pattern (in this
>> case, a single space. You may want to change that to gain
>> robustness, e.g. /[ \t]+/ will split on any number of spaces and tabs)
>
> I suggest /\s+/ instead. This splits on any whitespace,
> and it'll also remove trailing whitespace like those
> pesky trailing \n:
And further, use split(' ',$numbers), which is a special case that splits on
all whitespace, ignoring initial whitespace. Just a bare "split" does that
by default.
Try this:
perl -e '$_ = " 1 2 3 4 5 "; print "method 1: ", join(",",split /\s+/),
"\n", "method 2: ", join(",",split), "\n";'
- B
