On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Kealey, Martin, ihug-NZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm, my understanding was that it stopped *splitting* after the limit, but > it doesn't stop "consuming" the source;
D'oh, you are of course correct; that is in fact the chief utility of the limit parameter, and I can't believe I misremembered. I was even indignant not too long ago when using some other language/library which had a split that behaved as I described instead of as it does in Perl. Javascript, I believe. Please excuse the cerebroflatulence. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
