Mr. Shawn H. Corey" schreef: > John W. Krahn: >> 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.
One exception: the pattern / / does not work like the pattern ' '. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
