> > > Now I am trying to break up string into
> individual
> > > chars, but this does not seem to work:
> > snip
> > 
> > The idiomatic way is
> > 
> > for my $chr (split //, $str) {
> > }
> 
> Funny I had to explain split /|/, $str returning an
> array of characters.
> 
> -- 
> Ken Foskey
> FOSS developer
> 

Excellent Ken,

thank you, but why the pipe | and how does this differ
from ' ' or \s+.  I used Dumper and it showed the
array of chars, but want to understand.



       
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