On Wed, 2006-26-04 at 15:22 -0500, Rance Hall wrote: > I'm working on a new perl script thats giving me fits. > > Ive never quite seen anything like this. > > here is the command that is not giving me the results I want. > > @domain = split(' ',$domainlist); > > what should have happened was that if there was any whitespace in the > file (including new lines, and such) thats where the split would have > occurred
@domain = split /\s+/, $domainlist; It's not splitting on whitespace since you are telling it to split on a single space character (ASCII 0x20). -- __END__ Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>