On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 01:30 -0700, John W. Krahn wrote: > Anything used as a pattern is a string. See the "Quote and Quote-like > Operators" section of perlop:
Huh? Do you mean all strings can be used as a pattern? split( quotemeta( $split_string ), $data_string ); Or that patterns are built from strings? split( /$split_string/, $data_string ); What I meant was that: split( $split_string, $data_string ); works like the second one, which can surprise you since you would expect it to work like the first. -- __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>
