Hmmm, my understanding was that it stopped *splitting* after the limit, but it
doesn't stop "consuming" the source; rather the entire remainder is returned as
the last item in the list, even if it contains the delimiter. A bit like this:
sub split($pat, $src, $limit) {
@r = split($pat, $src);
return @r[0..$limit-2], join($pat, @r[$limit-1..*]);
}
except of course it works where $pat isn't a string literal, and does sensible
things if $limit is 0 or 1, and is implemented more efficiently.
-Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark J. Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 8:44 AM
> To: Chris Davaz
> Cc: Carl Mäsak; Perl6
> Subject: Re: Split with negative limits, and other weirdnesses
>
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Chris Davaz
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ok, so 0 returns the empty list and -1 violates the
> signature? In PIR
> > can we have such signatures that put a constraint on the range of
> > values for a given parameter?
>
> Maybe this has already been proposed and rejected, but why not simply
> define the limit parameter such that
>
> split($pat, $src, $limit)
>
> is equivalent, result-wise, to
>
> split($pat, $src)[0 .. $limit - 1]
>
> ? Of course, the limit-parameter case might be able to avoid some
> work compared to the second, which might not always be able to do its
> job lazily, but the return value would be the same. Then you don't
> have to come up with separate edge case rules for two different
> constructs... the one follows logically from the other.
>
> $limit is 0? @foo[0..-1] is the empty list. Check.
>
> @foo[0..-2] is also the empty list. So negative parameters
> don't need to Fail..
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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