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. -- __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>