Matija Papec wrote:
>
> Christopher Spears wrote:
>> while ($line = <>) {
>> ($who, $rest) = split /:\s*/, $line, 2;
>> @fields = split ' ', $rest;
>> $HoA{$who} = [ @fields ];
>> }
>>
>> The part that confuses me is:
>>
>> ($who, $rest) = split /:\s*/, $line, 2;
>>
>> I understand that it takes the input and splits it
>> into two parts along the regular expression, but I
>> can't figure out what the 2 means.
>
>C:\>perldoc -f split
> split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT
>
>2 is the LIMIT. It makes sure that $line wont be sliced in more then
two
>parts. If LIMIT is omitted, $line get splited on every /PATTERN/
>occurrence.
Also, 2 is the LIMIT.
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