On Mon, 2006-08-05 at 15:15 -0700, chen li wrote:
> Both line codes work perfectly:
> 
> my @new_array = map { split } @arry;
> or 
> my @new_array = split ' ', "@arry";

The second statement will work perfectly if every element has only one
space character separating its components and has no leading or trailing
spaces. A more general case would be to to split on whitespace:

  my @new_array = split /\s+/, "@arry";

See `perldoc perlretut` and `perldoc perlre` for details.


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