Rob Dixon wrote:
>
> John W. Krahn wrote:
> >
> > So, you are saying that:
> >
> > split ' ';
> >
> > Is the same as:
> >
> > split m' ';
> >
> > And the same as:
> >
> > split / /;
>
> The second and third are the same. The first one, a
> single space, is a special case. It splits on whitespace the
> same as:
>
> split;
>
> and
>
> split '\s+';
^^^^^^^^^^^
That is most definitely _not_ the same. :-)
$ perl -e'
$_ = " one two ";
print ">$_< " for split; print "\n";
print ">$_< " for split " "; print "\n";
print ">$_< " for split /\s+/; print "\n";
'
>one< >two<
>one< >two<
>< >one< >two<
John
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