Robert Krueger wrote:
> Hi,
Hello,
> I bought 3 books a few days ago on Perl, and things are going well with
> one exception.
>
> An example:
>
> @line = "this is a very long line word1+word2+word3 and it contines on and
> on";
>
> The object is to execute a split using "+" so I end up with word1, word2,
> and word3, so I do this:
>
> my @line = split('\+');
>
> According to the books, I should end up with this:
> $line[0] = word1
> $line[1] = word2
> $line[3] = word3
>
> Instead it ends up to be this:
> $line[0] = this is a very long line word1
> $line[1] = word2
> $line[3] = word3 and it contines on and on
>
> I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
> Can someone explain?
You are not doing anything wrong, that is how split() works, everything upto
the first '+' is put into $line[0] and everything between the first and second
'+' is put into $line[1] and everything between the second and the third '+'
is put into $line[3], etc., etc.
John
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