On 3/15/06, John Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> my $string = 'one   two three    four';
> my @temp = split(/ \s{1,}/,$string);

Your pattern matches a space followed by one or more whitespace
characters (such as tab, space, or newline). There's just a single
space between "two" and "three", and the pattern needs to match at
least two characters, so the pattern can't match there.

Hope this helps!

--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training

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